"You've often heard me say - perhaps..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“But I may be one who does not careEver to have tree bloom or bear.”

“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

“The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.”

“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”

“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”

“What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.”

“Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.”