Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

I have miles to go before I sleep.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

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

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.