"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn"
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
"I always entertain great hopes"
"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar"
"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"
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader"
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation"
"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard"
"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise"
"The artist in me cries out for design"
"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second"
"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on"
"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward"
"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space"
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice"
"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape"
"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things"
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor"
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market"
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired"
"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on"
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married"
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on"
"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia"
"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom"
"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving"
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain"
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on"
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard"
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up"
