I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.


Robert Frost

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ROBERT FROST
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not ...
ROBERT FROST
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
ROBERT FROST
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
ROBERT FROST
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
ROBERT FROST
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
ROBERT FROST
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
ROBERT FROST
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who...
ROBERT FROST
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
ROBERT FROST
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
ROBERT FROST
Freedom lies in being bold.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
ROBERT FROST
The best way out is always through.
ROBERT FROST
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
ROBERT FROST
The only way round is through.
ROBERT FROST
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confid...
ROBERT FROST
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better ...
ROBERT FROST
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjec...
ROBERT FROST
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days ...
ROBERT FROST
Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come...
ROBERT FROST
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve t...
ROBERT FROST
Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost 1874–1963

Here come real stars to fill th...
ROBERT FROST
God made a beauteous garden
With lovely flowers strown,
But one straight, narrow pathway<...
ROBERT FROST
I never take my own side in a quarrel.
ROBERT FROST
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definitio...
ROBERT FROST
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twent...
ROBERT FROST
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
ROBERT FROST
An idea is a feat of association.
ROBERT FROST
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
ROBERT FROST
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST
Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?
ROBERT FROST
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the di...
ROBERT FROST
These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before...
ROBERT FROST
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will tur...
ROBERT FROST
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
ROBERT FROST
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stoppin...
ROBERT FROST