Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Robert Frost Quotes
Writing a poem is discovering.
Poetry is simply made of metaphor. So also is philosophy – and science, too, for that matter, if it will take the soft impeachment from a friend.
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
The best way out is always through.
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 where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy […]
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
