"The liberal is a man who can't take his own side in a quarrel."

"I'm a writer of the people. I don't write for the critics. I write for the people."

"I never ask of a pupil who has written a poem, 'What does it mean?' I always ask, 'How did you arrive at that?'"

"The only way out is through."

"You come too. My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. It was no dream of the gift of idle hours, Or easy gold at the hand of king or queen Or anything but what one's hands can make."