A Poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost Quotes
No wonder poets sometime have to seem so much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
Poetry gets a good deal of neglect. That’s probably good for it. It’s the same with all the arts. They get a good deal of neglect – adversity. Nobody knows just how much is good for the arts.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
The best way out is always through.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy […]
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
