I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Quote by Robert Frost

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing...

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing...

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make...

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make...

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I've had a lover's quarrel with the world

I've had a lover's quarrel with the world

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer,...

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer,...

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of...

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of...

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly...

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly...

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed,...

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed,...

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the...

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the...

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is...

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is...

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being...

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being...

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with...

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with...

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being...

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being...

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.