Robert Frost

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

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

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.

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

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.

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

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Im not confused Im just well mixed.

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

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

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

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

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

Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader

The land was ours before we were the land's.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward

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

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular...The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief.

The best way out is always through.

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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

To be social is to be forgiving.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

The father is always a Republican toward his son and his mothers always a Democrat.

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.

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

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

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.

Good fences make good neighbors.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... 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.

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.

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.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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

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

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

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

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

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

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a womans birthday but never remembers her age.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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

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

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I am not a teacher but an awakener.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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

All the funs in how you say a thing.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

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

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fills 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.

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate.Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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

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

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and cant and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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

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 is not intended.

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

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

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

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.

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a 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.

Good fences make good neighbours.

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

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

It is the future that creates his present. All is an interminable chain of longing.

What is this talked of mystery of birth But being mounted bareback on the earth

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

People are inexterminable like flies and bed bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices thats us.

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

The only way out is through.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

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

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.