Robert Frost

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Home is the place where when you have to go there They have to take you in.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

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

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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.

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.