The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. Robert Frost More Quotes by Robert Frost More Quotes From Robert Frost The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Robert Frost careersmotivationaljobs The sidelong glance is what you depend on. Robert Frost glancesdepends Freedom is when you are easy in the harness. Robert Frost harnesseasy You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing. Robert Frost writingbelieveart You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. Robert Frost differenceshateinspirational Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. Robert Frost injusticemercy There are tones of voices that mean more than words. Robert Frost tonevoicemean I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me. Robert Frost spiritualhealingprofound So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. Robert Frost starsmindmay Humor is the most engaging cowardice. Robert Frost engagingicycowardice A poem begins with a lump in the throat Robert Frost poetrywritinginspirational 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 maintenanceacceptancelong He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through Robert Frost agreebest-wayway What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography. Robert Frost pieceshometravel Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand. Robert Frost feelingsfriendshippeople The test is always how we treat the poor. Robert Frost treatstestspoor For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true Robert Frost being-truebelieftruth The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar. Robert Frost skywindmoving Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of. Robert Frost poetwondersometimes The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. Robert Frost vermontmountaincurls