More From Robert Frost
- "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."
- "You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s."
- "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
More In Poetry
- "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."― Thomas Paine
- "I found that it wasn’t so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they’re kindred spirits."― J. Carter Brown
- "Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation."― Wislawa Szymborska