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.

I'm a writer of the people. I don't write for the critics. I write for the people.

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The reason why we're here is to be able to be useful, to be able to help others, to be able to love, to be able to have compassion.

The world is full of people who are trying to get out of things. They're trying to get out of responsibility, they're trying to get out of work.

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

We love the things we love for what they are.

You come too. My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. It was no dream of the gift of idle hours, Or easy gold at the hand of king or queen Or anything but what one's hands can make.

I'm not a nature poet. I've only written two poems about nature.

The liberal is a man who can't take his own side in a quarrel.

I'm not a materialist. I'm a realist.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.

One had to be an artist and a poet before one could be a good scientist.

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

I often say that I am a conservative. I am not a reactionary. I am a conservative. I am not a liberal. I am not a progressive. I am a conservative.

The mind is a peculiar thing. It works in its own ways.

The world is an apple. You have to bite it.