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

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”