Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

I have miles to go before I sleep.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.