Robert Frost

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

"For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true"

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

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"We love the things we love for what they are."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

"We love the things we love for what they are."

"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true"

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"I always entertain great hopes."

"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 twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice."

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

"The best way out is always through."

"God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown,But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown.And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live,And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give.Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend,But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end."God's Garden"

"Freedom lies in being bold."

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."