But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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