Quotes by Robert Frost
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Freedom lies in being bold.
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.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
The best way out is always through.
The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
"Skepticism," is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have we here?"
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.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
