Robert Frost

"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."

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."

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

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

"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."

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

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

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."

"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."

"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

"The artist in me cries out for design."

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."

"The best way out is always through."

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

"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."

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."