To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. - Robert Frost

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

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

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

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"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."