Robert Frost

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

"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."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"We love the things we love for what they are."

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

"Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice."

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

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

"These 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."

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

"“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”"

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

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

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."

"Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice."

"I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great"

"There should be more or less of a jumble in your head or on your note paper after the first time and even after the second. Much that you will think of in connection will come to nothing and be wasted. But some of it ought to go together under one idea. That idea is the thing to write on and write into the title at the head of your paper… One idea and a few subordinate ideas — [the trick is] to have those happen to you as you read and catch them — not let them escape you… The sidelong glance is what you depend on. You look at your author but you keep the tail of your eye on what is happening over and above your author in your own mind and nature."

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

"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."