"I am not a liberal. I am a radical. I am as radical as anything you ever saw."

"The greatest thing in life is to die young, but to postpone it as long as possible."

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense."

"I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light."

"I am a writer of the people, for the people, and by the people."