“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
“Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.”
“There are no second acts in American lives.”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
“You can't repeat the past?… Why of course you can!”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
“I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.”
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”