Robert Frost Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”

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

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”

“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”