Robert Frost

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. 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."

"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."

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

"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?"

"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."

"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."

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

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

"Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent."