Robert Frost

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."

"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."

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

"If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane."

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

"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."

"The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."