"If poetry isn't understanding all, the whole world, then it isn't worth anything."

"The world is full of people who are always wanting to be somebody else."

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense."

"A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"I am not a teacher, I am an awakener."