Robert frost quotes

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

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

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

All great things are done for their own sake.

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.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I always entertain great hopes.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.

Good fences make good neighbors.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

The best way out is always through.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

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

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

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.

Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

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.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

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

Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

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

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

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.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

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

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Create and stir other people to create.

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.

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.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

The test is always how we treat the poor.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Nothing gold can stay.

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

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

We love the things we love for what they are.

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

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

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

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.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

End is a gloomy word.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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

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

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Life is tons of discipline.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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

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

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

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

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

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