"The greatest thing an education can give a man is the ability to think for himself."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"Good fences make good neighbors."

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in a clarification of life—not necessarily a great clarification, such as Lowell or Emerson or Wordsworth might have given, but a momentary stay …"

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love."