Robert Frost Quotes
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Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents.
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.