Robert Frost

The only way to be happy is to love what you do.

I never wrote a poem that didn't have a human being in it.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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.

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

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts.

The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

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.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

If poetry isn't understanding all, the whole world, then it isn't worth anything.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

I'm not a politician, and I'm not a public speaker. I'm a poet, and I'm going to say what I think, and if you don't like it, you can lump it.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.

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

Nothing gold can stay.

Good fences make good neighbors.