Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Votes: 27
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Votes: 18
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. Votes: 13
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. Votes: 13
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. Votes: 0
The best way out is always through. Votes: 0
Freedom lies in being bold. Votes: 0
Don't be an agnostic. Be something. Votes: 0
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. Votes: 0
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. Votes: 0
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Votes: 0
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. Votes: 0
Writing a poem is discovering. Votes: 0
Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist. Votes: 0
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. Votes: 0
Good fences make good neighbors. Votes: 0
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Votes: 0
I have miles to go before I sleep... Votes: 0
Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.... Votes: 0
There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken. Votes: 0
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. Votes: 0
Nothing Gold Can Stay Votes: 0
Nothing gold can stay. Votes: 0
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Votes: 0
Lovers, forget your love,And list the love of these,She a window flower,And he a winter breeze. Votes: 0
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here? Votes: 0
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. Votes: 0
Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury. Votes: 0
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Votes: 0
I always entertain great hopes. Votes: 0
To be social is to be forgiving. Votes: 0
What we live by we die by. Votes: 0
A turning point in modern history. Votes: 0
An idea is a feat of association. Votes: 0
Ants are a curious race Votes: 0
Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready. Votes: 0
Don't be agnostic - be something. Votes: 0
End is a gloomy word. Votes: 0
For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired. Votes: 0
God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half. Votes: 0
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. Votes: 0
I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow. Votes: 0
I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice. Votes: 0
If one by one we counted people out Votes: 0
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener. Votes: 0
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. Votes: 0
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite. Votes: 0
Life is tons of discipline. Votes: 0
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. Votes: 0
loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round Votes: 0
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air. Votes: 0
My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds. Votes: 0
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. Votes: 0
Nature is always hinting at us. Votes: 0
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. Votes: 0
Nature's first green is gold. Votes: 0
Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.... Votes: 0
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. Votes: 0
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. Votes: 0
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.... Votes: 0
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen. Votes: 0
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length Votes: 0
The only way around is through. Votes: 0
The only way out is through. Votes: 0
The only way out is to go through Votes: 0
The only way round is through. Votes: 0
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose. Votes: 0
We ran as if to meet the moon. Votes: 0
When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them. Votes: 0