Robert Frost Quotes

"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."

"It looked as if a night of dark intentWas coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water brokenBefore God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken"

"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."

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

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

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

"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."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."

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

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

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

"To be social is to be forgiving."

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

"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."

"The artist in me cries out for design."

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

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

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

"The best way out is always through."