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Danh ngôn của Robert Frost (Sứ mệnh: 3)

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The best way out is always through.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Freedom lies in being bold.
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.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I always entertain great hopes.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
The artist in me cries out for design.
The only certain freedom's in departure.