“He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors.”

“He is all pine and I am apple orchard.My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, "Good fences makegood neighbors.”

“Good fences make good neighbors.”

“He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through”

“He thought that I was after him for a feather---The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses from another street,But not to call me back or say good-bye;And further still at an unearthly height,A luminary clock against the skyProclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.I have been one acquainted with the night.”