Poetry Is About The Grief. Politics Is

I Never Dared To Be Radical When Young For Fear It Would Make Me Conservative When Old.

An Idea Comes As Near To Something For Nothing As You Can Get.

The Nearest Friends Can Go With Anyone To Death, Comes So Far Short They Might As Well Not Try To Go At All.

They Cannot Scare Me With Their Empty Spaces Between Stars—on Stars Where No Human Race Is. I Have It In Me So Much Nearer Home To Scare Myself With My Own Desert Places.

Nature Is Always Hinting At Us. It Hints Over And Over Again. And Suddenly We Take The Hint.