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.
Robert FrostHe thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
Robert FrostPoetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
Robert FrostThe poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
Robert Frost