"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."

"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."

"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."

"Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated."

"There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."

"Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend"

"I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents."

"Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

"A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone."

"What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?"

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

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down."

"Some say the world will end in fire,/ Some say in ice./ From what I've tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire./ But if it had to perish twice,/ I think I know enough of hate/ To say that for destruction ice/ Is also great/ And would suffice."

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."

"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."

"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."

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country."

"The land was ours before we were the land's."

"We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows"

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze ..."

"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

"I always entertain great hopes."

"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."

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

"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."

"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."

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."

"Freedom lies in being bold."

"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

"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."

"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power."

"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them."

"My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight"

"The snake stood up for evil in the Garden."

"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."succ

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."