Quotes from Robert Frost

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting…. Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

Have I not walked without an upward lookOf caution under stars that very wellMight not have missed me when they shot and fell?It was a risk I had to take—and took.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Tree at my window, window tree,My sash is lowered when night comes on;But let there never be curtain drawnBetween you and me.

The artist in me cries out for design.

No memory of having starredAtones for later disregard,Or keeps the end from being hard.Better to go down dignifiedWith boughten friendship by your sideThan none at all. Provide, provide!

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

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