Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

Life is a festival only to the wise.

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.