I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Quote by Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed, Now...

An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed, Now...

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are...

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are...

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

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

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the...

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the...

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

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

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

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay...

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay...

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

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

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

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

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee and I'll forgive thy great big one...

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee and I'll forgive thy great big one...

The best way out is always through.

The best way out is always through.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying....

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying....

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

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

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

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