Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

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

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

I always entertain great hopes.