Robert Frost

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 offense

Nothing Gold Can Stay

The land was ours before we were the land's.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Space ails us moderns we are sick with space.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The only way round is through.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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

I always entertain great hopes.

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

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.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I've had a lover's quarrel with the world

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Writing a poem is discovering

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

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

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

He knew a path that wanted walking He knew a spring that wanted drinking A thought that wanted further thinking