The best way out is always through.

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."

"Writing a poem is discovering"

"Piling up knowledge is as bad as piling up money. You have to begin sometime to kick around what you know."

"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

"If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on."

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall"

"Earth's the right place for love; / I don't know where it's likely to go better."

"This as it will be seen is other far / Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song. / We love the things we love for what they are."

"We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows"

"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape"

"Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty"

"Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year."

"I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat"

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

"Tree at my window, window tree,/ My sash is lowered when night comes on;/ But let there never be curtain drawn/ Between you and me."

"Well Acquainted With the Night"

"Good fences make good neighbors."

"All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew"

"Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward"

"[Style is] that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."

"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting."

"Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30."

"I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference"

"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."

"All the fun's in how you say a thing"

"It's God - I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere"

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

"Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below."

"Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand."

"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length"

"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."

"The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people."

"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."

"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."

"The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security."

"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."

"Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference"

"A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork"

"[It's easy to wax satirical about the possibility that in some future time there could be more poets laureate in Colorado than readers of poetry. The fact is, poetry is an endangered species, and even those of us with a more prosaic bent can appreciate the importance of encouraging a broader audience. Of course, even poets have different views of what they do. Pablo Neruda wrote, for example, that] poetry is an act of peace, ... Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"`Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.' / `I should have called it / Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'"

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

"I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."