Robert Frost

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

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

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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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.

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

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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