Quotes from Robert Frost

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

I may as well confess myself the author Of several books against the world in general.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by

If I must choose which I would elevate— The people or the already lofty mountains, I'd elevate the already lofty mountains.

I had not taken the first step in knowledge; I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart. And have no wish to with the heart—nor need. That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind— Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

Now no joy but lacks salt, That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference

The melancholy of having to count souls Where they grow fewer and fewer every year Is extreme where they shrink to none at all. It must be I want life to go on living.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. –

The best way out is always through

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference .

What but design of darkness to appall?— If design govern in a thing so small.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The artist in me cries out for design.

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.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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.