“Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
Robert Frost
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
Robert Frost
“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost