Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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.
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.
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
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...
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...
The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.
We love the things we love for what they are.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.