Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

— Robert Frost

And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less--A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

— Robert Frost

And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but Holland freshen in this air of withering sweetness;

— Robert Frost

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.

— Robert Frost

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

— Robert Frost

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or homesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost