"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."

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

"One had to be an artist and a poet before one could be a good scientist."

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

"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed."