"It should be of the pleasure of..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.”

“But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.”

“The sidelong glance is what you depend on.”

“The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.”

“Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.”

“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.”

“One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.”

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.”

“Every house where love abidesAnd friendship is a guest,Is surely home, and home sweet homeFor there the heart can rest.”