"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
— Robert Frost

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
— Robert Frost

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"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."
— Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
— Robert Frost

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke)

"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!"
— Rainer Maria Rilke

"Every angel is terrifying."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
— John F. Kennedy

"...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy's. "Do you remember," Stevenson said, "that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' " At this hour, Obama is the Democrats' Demosthenes."
— E.J. Dionne

"Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not."
— Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
— Francis Bacon

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
— Francis Bacon

"Reading maketh a full man."
— Francis Bacon

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much"
— Helen Keller

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."
— Helen Keller

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
— Helen Keller

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings."
— Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."
— Helen Keller

"For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song."
— Helen Keller

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
— Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
— Helen Keller

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
— Helen Keller (The Story of My Life)

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
— Helen Keller

"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."
— Helen Keller (My Religion)

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
— Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement "
— Helen Keller

"The highest result of education is tolerance"
— Helen Keller

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
— Helen Keller