Quotes By Robert Frost

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.

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

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

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

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

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

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

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

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

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

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.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.