"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."

"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way."

"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."

“It all comes,” said Pooh crossly, “of not having front doors big enough.”

“doing nothing often leads to the very best of something”

“We can't all, and some of us don't.”

“But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.”

“From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.”

“Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.”

“They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.”

“Weeds are Flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.”

“Honey or condensed milk with your bread?” he was so excited that he said, “Both,” and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, “but don’t bother about the bread, please.”

"If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution."

"I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America."

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

"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."

"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."

"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."

"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

"The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing."

"I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty."

“Don't blame me if it rains.”

“No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes.”

“Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.”

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ~ Alan Alexander Milne”

“it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.”

“it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.”

“If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.”

“I'm Short and fat and proud of that!!”

“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

“For some time now Pooh had been saying “Yes” and “No” in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, “Yes, yes,” last time, he said “No, not at all,” now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about.”

"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

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

"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing everyday.”

“You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else.”