"Summary riposteTo the dreary wailThere's no knowing..." - Quote by Robert Frost

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

“Let me be the one To do what is done.”

“A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”

“The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.”

“In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.”

“He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.”

“The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has taken for subject. If the poem is thin, it is likely so not because the poet does not know enough words, but because he or she has not stood long enough among the flowers--has not seen them in any fresh, exciting, and valid way.”

“I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”

“Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.”