"The reason why we have poetry is to have a momentary stay against confusion."

"My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight."

"I never had a theory. I just wrote."

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense."

"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."