Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

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

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

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

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.