So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be..

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twic….

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

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord..

God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew..

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermor….

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. ….

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have ….

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

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage..

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises ….

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it..

Good fences make good neighbors..

All great things are done for their own sake..

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences….

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia..

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow..

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of..

And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's fr….

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave..

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be ….