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“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”

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

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

“A good book has no ending”

“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.”

1910s, Mending Wall (1914)

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

“I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.”

“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.”

“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

Variant: Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

“The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.”

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”

“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.”

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”

Variant: I am not confused, I'm just well mixed.

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”

Source: The Poetry of Robert Frost

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”

Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
1910s

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

Title of poem (1942)
1940s

“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.”

Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" (1923)
1920s

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”