Favorite Quotations
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Robert Frost
Mending Wall
Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom I shall be telling this with a sigh; Somewhere ages and ages hence. Any work of art must first of all tell a story. Don't be an agnostic. Be something. 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. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Nothing gold can stay. Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Courage is not fighting back; it is the power to endure. Democracy is the best chance for the best people. No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little -- less -- nothing! -- and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." ~ Robert Frost, Preface to Collected Poems, 1939