They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert FrostI never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert FrostPoetry 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.
Robert Frost