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.

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.

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.

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