Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and…

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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become...

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become...

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang...

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang...

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus...

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus...

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes...

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes...

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you...

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write...

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write...

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class...

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class...

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give...

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give...

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could...

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in...