Quotes By Robert Frost

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

The way a crow Shook down on me. The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood. And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The artist in me cries out for design.

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

In spring more mortal singers than belongTo any one place cover us with song.Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.