Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

Another Christmas PoemBlood Christmas, here again.Let us raise a loving cup:Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing-up.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

An individual chooses and makes himself.

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.