Quotes by Robert Frost

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

Theres nothing Im afraid of like scared people.

I always entertain great hopes.

At bottom the world isnt a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know hes there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

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

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life. It goes on.

Youve got to love whats lovable and hate whats hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

Youve got to be brave and youve got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - whats right and whats wrong whats good and whats bad.

Education is hanging around until youve caught on.

You dont have to deserve your mothers love. You have to deserve your fathers. Hes more particular.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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

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

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

Dont be agnostic - be something.