In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The best way out is always through.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
The only way round is through.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
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.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
I always entertain great hopes.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
We love things we love what they are.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
