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Robert Frost Quotes


Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

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

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

The artist in me cries out for design.

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

The best way out is always through.

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

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

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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

The only certain freedom's in departure.

The only way round is through.