Quotes from Robert Frost

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

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

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail

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

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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.