Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
"The best way out is always through."
"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
"Freedom lies in being bold."
"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."
"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."
"Good fences make good neighbors.
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."
"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. "
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
Some people sit 'round a ring and suppose,
but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
"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"
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."
"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."
"Good fences make good neighbors.
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."
"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. "
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
Some people sit 'round a ring and suppose,
but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
"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"
