Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Quotes

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

• Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

• Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

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

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

• The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
  But I have promises to keep,
  And miles to go before I sleep,
  And miles to go before I sleep.

• Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope.

• And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

• I never dared to be radical when young,
  For fear it would make me conservative when old.

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

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

• 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.

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

• You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

• I never dared to be radical when young
  For fear it would make me conservative when old.

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

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

• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.