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" The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive. "

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" I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. "

" I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. "

" The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. "

" You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. "

" The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

" I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. "

" Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. "

" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. "

" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "

" You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. "

" Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. "

" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "

" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "

" The only certain freedom's in departure. "

" The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. "

" The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. "

" Hell is a half-filled auditorium. "

" A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. "

" The only way round is through. "

" There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. "

" I go to school the youth to learn the future. "

" Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. "

" Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. "

" Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. "

" You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. "

" The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. "

" Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. "

" Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. "