"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves."
— Robert Frost

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!"
— Emily Dickinson

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
— Emily Dickinson

"The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is mindfulness of what we are, of what our situation really is. We need to wake up in order to rediscover our human sovereignty. We are riding a horse that is running out of control. The way of salvation is a new culture in which human beings are encouraged to rediscover their deepest nature. "
— Thich Nhat Hahn

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to...to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

"We turn not older with years but newer every day."
— Emily Dickinson

"Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it."
— Emily Dickinson

"The best way out is always through."
— Robert Frost

"earth is the right place for love. i don't know where it is likey to go better."
— Robert Frost

"INTO MY OWN

One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e’er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew—
Only more sure of all I thought was true."
— Robert Frost (A Boy's Will)

"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. "
— Robert Frost

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
— Robert Frost

"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

"Life is available only in the present moment."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions)

"If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (The Art of Power)