A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

— Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

— Robert Frost

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

— Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

— Robert Frost

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

— Robert Frost

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine.

— Robert Frost

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocational my two eyes make one in sight.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost