"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed...." - Quote by Robert Frost

“They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.”

“Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.”

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.”

“When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.”

“I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.”

“I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?”

“Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.”

“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.”