“I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.”

“You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.”

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn”

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”

“So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.”

“The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind-Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells meThat I need learn to let go with the heart.”