“The only way around is through.”
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
“To be social is to be forgiving.”
“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.”
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
“I had a lovers quarrel with the world.”
“I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.”
“Poetry is what is lost in translation.”
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
“One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.”
“Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.”
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”
“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”
“Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.”
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
“Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.”
“Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.”
“I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”
“A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
“Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.”
“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
“A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.”