Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

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.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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.

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.

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.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.