"I never ask of a pupil who has written a poem, 'What does it mean?' I always ask, 'How did you arrive at that?'"

"I'm not a politician, and I'm not a public speaker. I'm a poet, and I'm going to say what I think, and if you don't like it, you can lump it."

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

"A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."

"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice."