Robert Frost

"The truth is we don't know what is going to happen to us next."

"The simplest questions are the hardest to answer."

"Once you begin doing anything, the world conspires to help you do it."

"Talent is a matter of experience and dedication and belief that you're going to succeed."

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

"Time and patience are the greatest physicians of the soul."

"The mind is a strange instrument to have."

"We play in the same orchestra, and it's a wonderful orchestra to play in."

"A voice crying in the wilderness is always out of luck."

"The tree that grows in the concrete must be stronger than the tree in the forest."

"You cannot be anything you want to be, but you can be a lot more of what you already are."

"The road less traveled may be less traveled for a good reason."

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given and make it over your way."

"Nature does not hurry; yet everything is accomplished."

"Loyalty, honesty and truth are the greatest of virtues."

"A poem is best read in the mood it invites."

"I have often had the fancy that if I were to live my life over again, I would alter almost nothing."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas and still function."

"Fear is what holds us back from living the life we want."

"You cannot have everything at once; you have to choose and not choose and choose again."

"The figure a poem makes on the page, the way it looks and reads, is part of the poem itself."

"Education is the ability to think of almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit."

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

"The unforgiving minute measures out our lives."

"A poem is never a put-up job; so to speak. It begins as a mere gleam or inchoate form in the mind."

"Miles to go before I sleep, and promises to keep."

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

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep."

"I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference."