"A poet must never make a statement..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.”

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”

“I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart”

“Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.”

“Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.”

“By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.”

“A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.”

“Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.”

“The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.”