The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose