Robert Frost
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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

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

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The best way out is always through.

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.

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

The only way round is through.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

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

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.