Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.
But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!