It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

Good fences make good neighbors.

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.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.