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" I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. "

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" Education is hanging around until you've caught on. "

" My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. "

" You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. "

" 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. "

" College is a refuge from hasty judgment. "

" The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. "

" The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. "

" There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. "

" I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. "

" If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. "

" Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. "

" I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. "

" There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. "

" You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. "

" You can't get too much winter in the winter. "

" Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. "

" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

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

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" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "

" Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. "

" Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. "

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

" Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. "