"I'm a believer in the literal word. I think it's the literal word that counts."

"I often say that I am a conservative. I am not a reactionary. I am a conservative. I am not a liberal. I am not a progressive. I am a conservative."

"You come too. My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. You come too."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

"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."