You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.
~ Robert Frost
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. 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 words.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
To be social is to be forgiving.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
I always entertain great hopes.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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.
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.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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 artist in me cries out for design.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
