You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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Robert Frost
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About Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Robert FrostThe worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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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…
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
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.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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.
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 fo…
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.