Robert Frost

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

“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”

“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.”

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

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

“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”

“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”

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

“The only certain freedom's in departure.”

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

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

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

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

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

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

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“I always entertain great hopes.”