93 result(s) for Robert Frost Quotes.
"Something we were withholding made us weak until we found it was ourselves."
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone."
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office."
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."
"I never dared to be radical when young. For fear it would make me conservative when old."
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"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
"I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
"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."
"To be social is to be forgiving."
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
"The best way to get rid of the enemy is to make them your friend."
"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."
"I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
"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."
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"I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire."
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
"Good fences make good neighbors."
"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
"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."
"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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
"Freedom lies in being bold."
"We love the things we love for what they are."
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"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
"The best way out is always through."
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"The only way around is through."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
"The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
"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."
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in their own way."
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
"I’m not a teacher, only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as you."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a loneliness. It is never a thought to begin with."
"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on."
"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense."
"If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane."
"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
"I hold that there can be no more important job in this world than that of being a good father. "
"A poem is best read in the light of আসন্ন doom."
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"I’m known as a poet who encouraged the giving of attention. I say attention, all the time."
"Don't be a woman that needs a man; be a woman a man needs."
"The figure a poem makes. 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."
"The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup."
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."
"I'm not a teacher, but an awakener."
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a loneliness."
"I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns to God to be / The single source of company / From which all radiance shall arise."
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your own way. All else is ugliness."
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
"Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family—but not much in between unless a college."
"You can be a patriot and a critic of your country at the same time."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"I'm not a nature poet. There is always more to me than that."
"I never came to a crisis in my life when I didn't find strength and courage came to me without my knowing how."
"I hold that the perfection of work is accomplished, not when there is nothing more to be added, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"I’m known as a hard-surface man. I like granite materiality."
"I've always been one to take risks and go against the grain."
"I'm not a teacher, only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you."
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
"Some say the world will end in fire,/ Some say in ice."
"I hold with those who favor fire."
"Poetry is the supreme of art; it is the refutation of science."
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
"Thinking is not to be confused with yielding."
"There are two kinds of futurists: those who fear the future and those who don't."
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