Robert Frost

"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."

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"Wilderness is the preservation of the world."

"You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself inside out and keep on turning."

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

"Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does by making a garden."

"There is nothing I'm afraid of like scared people."

"Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it."

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep."

"I often regret that nothing gets said about how much poetry is understood."

"Most of the changes we think we see in life are due to truths being in and out of favor."

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies."

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you."

"If you don't know how great you are, you might spend half your life wondering."

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"Beware of anyone who says they are talented but cannot prove it."

"One thing you have to know about getting old is that your friends are dying."

"Fear is the thing that prevents you from taking a risk."

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

"The hardest thing to do is something you haven't done before."

"A man must be dressed in a way that strikes right."

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

"If one by one we counted people out for the least sin, we never should have anybody left."

"The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

"Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it."

"The mind set free of thought is the greatest freedom."