“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
Work“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
Life“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
Work“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”
History“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”
Business“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
Great“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Work“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 greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”
Family“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Age“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Poetry“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”
Work“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
Poetry“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“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”
Sports“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
Poetry“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
Teacher“The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
Morning“To be social is to be forgiving.”
Forgiveness“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”
Great“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Poetry