“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.”

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

We love the things we love for what they are.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

All great things are done for their own sake.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.