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Robert Frost: To be a poet is a condition, not a profession

. The four-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet, born on 26 March, 1874, left us a wealth of wisdom after his death in 1963.

Robert Frost famously said that he had had a lover's quarrel with the world - something he would have put on his own tombstone had he had the choice. The four-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet, born on 26 March, 1874, left us a wealth of wisdom after his death in 1963, and here are just some of those gems:
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
"The best way out is always through."
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."