I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago..

One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends….

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't l….

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more i….

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she wa….

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing..

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to….

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear..

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college..

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn..

Democracy is the best chance for the best people..

A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begin….

I have miles to go before I sleep..

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects….

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy..

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom..

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.

If one by one we counted people out.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew..

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs..

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length..