Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

"The Road Not Taken" poem

“The only certain freedom's in departure.”

“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”

“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“The artist in me cries out for design.”

“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”

“To be social is to be forgiving.”

“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”

“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”

“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”

“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”

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

“Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.”

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

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

“The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”