“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Home“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
Great“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Home“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”
Love“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”
Life“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Work“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
Work“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
Great“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”
Men“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
Work“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”
Freedom“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
Wisdom“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
Society“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
Life“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”
Business“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”
Power“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”
Alone“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Love“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Education“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”
Freedom“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”
Fear“The artist in me cries out for design.”
Design