"I have stood still and stopped the..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”

“One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.”

“I see for Nature no defeatIn one tree's overthrowOr for myself in my retreatFor yet another blow.”

“We are always in our own company.”

“When I didn't have friends, I had books.”

“Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”

“Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.”

“Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.”

“When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.”