Robert Frost Quotes

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

We ran as if to meet the moon.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

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

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.