In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The best way out is always through.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

The only way round is through.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

What we live by we die by.

I always entertain great hopes.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

We love things we love what they are.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.