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Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.