Quotations by Robert Frost ~

"Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favour."
~ The Black Cottage, 1914

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in."
~ The Death of the Hired Man, 1914

"The land was ours before we were the land's.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people."
~ The Gift Outright, 1942

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference"
~ The Road Not Taken, 1916

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and
ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love."
~ Collected Poems, 1939 'The Figure a Poem Makes'

"No Tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader."
~ Collected Poems, 1939, 'The Figure a Poem Makes

"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being."

"I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."
~ Interviews with Robert Frost, 1966 ~ Edward Lathem
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of QUOTATIONS OXFORD, University Press, 2001

Note: Please join us when Neil Paul reads Robert Frost, Thursday, November 24 at 1:00 p.m.