Robert Frost Quotes - Page 2

American - Poet March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Down Writing Free Like Tennis

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

Tears Surprise Writer Reader

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

Lawyer Better Who Decide

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

Drive Road White Place

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

Man Own Side Quarrel Liberal

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.

Power Violence Control Own

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

Hell Way Own Go

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

Poetry Wrong Sense Begins Poem

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry Lost Translation Gets

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

Home You Place Go

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Nothing Injustice Mercy Just Make

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Me World Short My Own

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

Mother Woman Man Fool

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.

Work Morning Moment You

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Freedom Only Departure Certain

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

Work People World Rest

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Love You Never Poet

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.

Life You Fall Aim

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

Life Body Sometimes Person Will

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.

Style Mind Saying Forward

We love things we love what they are.

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.

Live People Long Sin

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Me World Stone Quarrel

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

End Writing Never Poem

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Life Poetry Way Taking

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

Life Education Change Trouble

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