To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.