Acquainted with the NightI have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have p...
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
I always entertain great hopes.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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...
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its t...
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.