The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

6.90 Robert Frost 1874-1963
I have been one acquainted with the night.
‘Acquainted with the Night’ (1928)
I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
‘Birches’ (1916)
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favour.
‘The Black Cottage’ (1914)
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
‘Cluster of Faith’ (1962)
And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.
‘The Death of the Hired Man’ (1914)
‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.’
‘I should have called it
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’
‘The Death of the Hired Man’ (1914)
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
‘Desert Places’ (1936)
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
‘Fire and Ice’ (1923)