40 quotes by Robert Frost for those who love foreign poetry

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

In a moment there were two ways to go. I chose the less traveled one, and that made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The bank is the place where they lend us an umbrella when the weather is nice and take it back when it starts to rain.

The best way out is to get out completely.

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

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I never dared to be a radical in my youth. I was afraid of becoming a conservative when I was old.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

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

Nature is always hinting at us. She suggests over and over again. And suddenly we took the hint.

In two words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

We love the things we love for what they are.

I am not a teacher, but an awakening.

If we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go crazy.

Something we were holding back made us weak until we realized it was ourselves.

Time and tide wait for no one – but time always stands still for a thirty-year-old woman.

Happiness accomplishes in intensity what it lacks in duration.

Being a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes about Thee. And I will forgive Your great trouble in me.

Forgive me my absurdity, as I also forgive the absurdity of those who think they speak the sense.

Never dismantle a fence until you know why it was put up.

I consider it the inalienable right of every person to go to hell in his own way.

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

We dance in a circle and guess, but the Secret is in the middle and knows it.

Only where love and need are one, and work is a deadly gambling game, is action truly performed for the good of Heaven and the future.

A jury is made up of twelve people chosen to decide who has the best lawyer.

The main reason for going to school is to establish forever the impression that there is a side of the book to everything.

Thinking is not agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

Maturity is no object, except perhaps in education, where you might think from all the talk that the aim and end of it all was to become sophisticated before being educated.

I am a book writer in retrospect. I speak to understand; I teach to learn.

A liberal is too open-minded a man to take sides in a fight.

A civilized society is one that tolerates eccentricity to the point of questionable sanity.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Anything but the truth would be too much.

You have to love what is lovable and hate what can be hated. It takes brains to see the difference.

Poetry is a way of taking life down the throat.

We die for what we live for.

I turned to speak to God about the despair of the world; but, to make matters worse, I discovered that God was not there.

We saw the risk we took in doing good, but we dared not spare ourselves to do the best we could.