Robert Frost

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

“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”

“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.”

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

“The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”