37 quotes
American writer and editor (1878–1967)
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
on Family
"Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance."
on Art
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
on Wisdom
"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
on Faith
"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
on War
"The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now."
on Mindfulness
"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air."
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment."
"Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come."
"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one."
on Writing
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
on Happiness
"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
on Emotions
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
on Life
"Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
"To be a good loser is to learn how to win."
"Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work."
on Language
"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."
"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
on Dreams
