I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.
It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.