Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
Robert FrostForgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert FrostThe difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Robert FrostOur 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.
Robert Frost