I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost Quotes
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.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A Poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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.”
Two roads diverged in a woods, – and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.