Robert Frost Quotes
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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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.
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I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.
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The test is always how we treat the poor.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.