“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”– Robert Frost Related Quotes “This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’”– Maya Angelou “Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”– Antoine de Saint-Exupery