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

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

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