`Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.' / `I should have called it / Something you somehow haven't to deserve.' |
''Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'' |
[It's easy to wax satirical about the possibility that in some future time there could be more poets laureate in Colorado than readers of poetry. The fact is, poetry is an endangered species, and even those of us with a more prosaic bent can appreciate the importance of encouraging a broader audience. Of course, even poets have different views of what they do. Pablo Neruda wrote, for example, that] poetry is an act of peace, ... Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. |
[Style is] that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. |
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. |
A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork |
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. |
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. |
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. |
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. |
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. |
A liberal is a man too broad minded to take his own side in a quarrel |
A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone. |
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. |
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. |