Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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

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

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

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.