For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

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

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.