“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.”
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261
General sources
Varianta: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Varianta: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.
“I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621 <br class="br">Varianta: And miles to go before I sleep. <br class="br">Kontext: The woods are lovely, dark and deep.<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
St. 1
Zdroj: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
"Hyla Brook" (1920)
1920s
Varianta: Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.”
"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
Varianta: I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
" The Secret Sits http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-secret-sits/" (1942) <br class="br">1940s
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Varianta: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.