"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

"The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it."

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

"It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts."

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