I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be..

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power..

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows..

The artist in me cries out for design..

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will..

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden..

The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes to….

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through.

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

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped i….

'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with co….

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

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little po….

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the….

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told….

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets….

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day..

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise..

Writing a poem is discovering..

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling..

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