Quotes By Robert Frost

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

The best way out is always through.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.