Robert Frost

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

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

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.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

I always entertain great hopes.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

The artist in me cries out for design.

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

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

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