Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.