Robert Frost

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

The artist in me cries out for design.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

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

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

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

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

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.