"A poem begins in delight and ends..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.”

“Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away”

“Nothing gold can stay.”

“I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.”

“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”

“A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.”

“Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.”

“I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.”

“I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.”