"Well Acquainted With the Night"

"Good fences make good neighbors."

"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"

"Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward"

"[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."

"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting."

"Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30."

"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"

"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."

"All the fun's in how you say a thing"

"It's God - I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere"

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

"Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below."

"Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand."

"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length"

"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."

"The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people."

"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."

"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."

"The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security."

"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."

"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"

"A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork"

"[It's easy to wax satirical about the possibility that in some future time there could be more poets laureate in Colorado than readers of poetry. The fact is, poetry is an endangered species, and even those of us with a more prosaic bent can appreciate the importance of encouraging a broader audience. Of course, even poets have different views of what they do. Pablo Neruda wrote, for example, that] poetry is an act of peace, ... Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"`Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.' / `I should have called it / Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'"

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

"I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."

"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."

"The only way round is through."

"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard."

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."

"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true."

"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

"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."

"I turned to speak to God About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there"

"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."