Quotes By Robert Frost

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

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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

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

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

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.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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.

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

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

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

What we live by we die by.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.