Robert Frost

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

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

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

"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"

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

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."

"Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one."

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

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

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

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

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

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

"The best way out is always through."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."

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