"I'm not a nature poet. I have written two poems with nature in them."

"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down."

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