Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

I always entertain great hopes.

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

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