All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.