Robert Frost Quotes
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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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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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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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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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.
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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.
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The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
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The footpath down to the well is healed.
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He says the best way out is always through. And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through.
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Loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round.
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Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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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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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty.
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.
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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.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.