Robert W. Service

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

It isnt the mountain ahead that wears you out its the grain of sand in your shoe.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France one could lead a free life to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from ones neighbors.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.