Robert Frost Quotes

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars"”on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The only way around is through.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

To be social is to be forgiving.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Lovers, forget your love,And list the love of these,She a window flower,And he a winter breeze.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Writing a poem is discovering.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

An idea is a feat of association.

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

I always entertain great hopes.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.