To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. – Robert Frost
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. – Robert Frost
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. – Robert Frost
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. – Robert Frost
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. – Robert Frost
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. – Robert Frost
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. – Robert Frost
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. – Robert Frost
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. – Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert Frost
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone. – Robert Frost
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. – Robert Frost
Humor is the most engaging cowardice. – Robert Frost
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. – Robert Frost
I always entertain great hopes. – Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. – Robert Frost
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. – Robert Frost
I go to school the youth to learn the future. – Robert Frost
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. – Robert Frost
