But yield who will to their separation, My object in living... - Robert Frost

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."