Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Superior people never make long visits.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

There never was a war that was not inward.

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Originality is a by product of sincerity.

They fought the enemy we fight fat living and self pity. Shine o shine unfalsifying sun on this sick scene.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence not in silence but restraint.

The Heart That Gives Gathers.

Originality is a by product of sincerity

Revision is its own reward.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

My worst quality is impatience.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Impatience is a virtue.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.