"People are inexterminable - like flies and..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.”

“I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.”

“I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.”

“Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.”

“How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.”

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”

“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.”

“If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house. "Well, I was lost, but now I live here!"”

“Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.”