Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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 often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

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

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

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.