Quotes from Robert Frost

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.

There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

All great things are done for their own sake.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

I always entertain great hopes.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

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.

What we live by we die by.