Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up..

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds..

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed..

Nature's first green is gold..

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired..

In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng..

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard..

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To whe….

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody..

What we live by we die by..

When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, A….

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts..

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within..

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.

People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us..

Freedom lies in being bold..

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them..

A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune..

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain..

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it..

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart.