Robert Frost citations

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.”

“How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail”

“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”

“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.”

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.”

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

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

“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”

“A good book has no ending”

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

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

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

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”