The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.