"We disparage reason.But all the time it's..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“When I was young my teachers were the old.I gave up fire for form till I was cold.”

“Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.”

“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.”

“O, reason not the need!”

“It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.”

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.”

“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”

“An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.”