"The woods are lovely, dark and deep...." - Quote by Robert Frost

“I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

“Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let him down.”

“Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.”

“Only the mistakes were mine.”

“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”

“Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.”

“The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.”