Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

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

Writing a poem is discovering.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.