Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Two obsessions are the hallmarks of Nature's artistic style.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not...
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her...
