Quotes By Robert Frost

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

What we live by we die by.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The only way round is through.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.