Robert Frost Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The best way out is always through."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"Freedom lies in being bold."

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

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

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"The only way round is through."

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

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

"I always entertain great hopes."