We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
We love the things we love for what they are.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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.
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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 am not a teacher, but an awakener.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.