Robert Frost

"Being the boss anywhere is lonely, but being the boss in your own home is impossible."

"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"A civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation."

"Don't ask for guarantees. There aren't any."

"We cannot go far in reading without becoming aware of a change in ourselves."

"Forgive, forget. But don't go back to being a fool."

"If love doesn't know how to give and take without restrictions, it's not love, but a transaction that never nourishes the way love is supposed to."

"It's true that money won't buy happiness, but lack of money certainly buys unhappiness."

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

"Kindness is most important to maintaining relationships."

"Time and patience resolve what force cannot."

"The road not taken."

"I would have written of me as one who loved his life."

"Being an atheist is nothing to be ashamed of."

"The weather is something worth talking about."

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do."

"Play is whatever a body is not obliged to do."

"Poetry is the art of saying what you mean indirectly."

"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove, the poem must ride on its own melting."

"A poet's concern is not with setting the record straight."

"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."

"I went to the doctor and told him I felt bad. He said, 'You ARE bad,' so I went home."

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept."

"The test of literature is whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."

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

"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house."

"The reason why so much poetry is written is because it is the easiest thing to write."

"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."