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The land was ours before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia,
But we were Englands, still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living,
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would become.
-Robert Frost
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Acceptance
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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.
-Robert Frost
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Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
-Robert Frost
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America
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
-Robert Frost
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Argument & Debate
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
-Robert Frost
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Birth
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
-Robert Frost
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Bureaucracy
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
-Robert Frost
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Change
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
-Robert Frost
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Choice
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
-Robert Frost
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Communication
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Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
-Robert Frost
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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.
-Robert Frost
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Confusion
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I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.
-Robert Frost, quoted in Wall Street Journal (New York), August 5, 1969
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Control
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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.
-Robert Frost
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Deception/Lying
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The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
-Robert Frost
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Decisions
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost, Road Not Taken, The
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Diplomacy
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost
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Doubt
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
-Robert Frost
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Education
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
-Robert Frost
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
-Robert Frost
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Epitaphs
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
-Robert Frost
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Failure
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
-Robert Frost
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Fame
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
-Robert Frost
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Family
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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.
-Robert Frost
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Fanaticism
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
-Robert Frost
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Books by and about Robert Frost