Robert Frost
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
“And miles to go before I sleep.”
“Nothing gold can stay.”
“I have promises to keep.”
“I hold with those who favor fire.”
“Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice.”
“I have been one acquainted with the night.”
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
“Something there is that doesn't love a wall.”
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant—and let the air out of the tires.”
“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written.”
“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
“To be social is to be forgiving.”
“Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.”