Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me.

THE FIGURE A POEM MAKES

No one can really hold that ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends 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.

A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look