Robert Frost

A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.

Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

Robert Frost

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

Robert Frost

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Robert Frost

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

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Robert Frost

An idea comes as close to something for nothing as you can get.

Robert Frost

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

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Robert Frost