“Whenever there comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever"- Winnie the Pooh.”

“Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out to be Hostile Animals?”

“don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”

“It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh”

“Which makes it a bothering sort of day.”

“You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think - Christopher Robin”

“We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. 'Even longer.' Pooh answered.”

“She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.”

“I wasn’t afraid,” said Pooh, said he, “I’m never afraid with you.”

“He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.”

“Some poeople care too much....I think its called Loved”

“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”

“Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.”

"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 see how it comes out this time."

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

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

"Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes."

"And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?"

"Revolt and terror pay a price,/ Order and law have a cost."

"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

"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.”