Robert Frost

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.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

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.

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

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

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.