We love things we love what they are.
— Robert Frost
The artist in me cries out for design.
What we live by we die by.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
I always entertain great hopes.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Freedom lies in being bold.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
The only way round is through.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
The only certain freedom's in departure.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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.
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
To be social is to be forgiving.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
