"Most of the change we think we..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“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.”

“I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.”

“I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.”

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”

“I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.”

“Change has come to America.”

“The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.”

“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”

“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.”