Robert Frost Quotes

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

“How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail”
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In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.

All of life is a coming home.

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.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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 the word.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

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.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

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

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

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.