 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. |
| College is a refuge from hasty judgment. |
| In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. |
| Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. |
| A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. |
| Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. |
| Hell is a half-filled auditorium. |
| There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. |
| I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. |
| Education is hanging around until you've caught on. |
| The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. |
| Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. Topics: Education |
| Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. |
| To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. |
| If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. |
| A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. |
| Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. |
| I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. |
| You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. |
| Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. |
