Robert Frost Quotes
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Life, Wisdom, Confusion, Delight)
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Mother, Father, Son, Republican)
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Writer)
"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Life, Impression, Reason, School)
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Office)
"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Society, People, Want)
"The artist in me cries out for design."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Design, Artist)
"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second."
- Robert Frost
(Related: First, Pressure, Talking, Writing)
"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Art, Life, Care)
"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Mind, Saying, Style, Writer)
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."
- Robert Frost
(Related: End, Fire, Will, World)
"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Road)
"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Baseball, Moments, Poets)
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Poetry, Thought, Emotion, Words)
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Poetry)
"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Poetry, Politics, Grief)
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Life, Poetry)
"One aged man - one man - can't fill a house."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Man)
"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Injustice, Mercy, Nothing)
"Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent."
- Robert Frost
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Tears, Writer)
"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Being, End, Memory)
"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Space)
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Profession)
"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Autumn, Rain, Sorrow)
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Freedom)
"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Love, Mother, Father)
"You can't get too much winter in the winter."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Winter)
"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Rank)
"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Country, Right)
"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Tennis, Writing)
"What we live by we die by."
- Robert Frost
"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Dance)
"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Life)
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Family, Life)
"To be social is to be forgiving."
- Robert Frost
"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Jury)
"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Thinking, Voting)
"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Thought)
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Heart)
"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
(Related: Quail)
"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Work, Disease, Egotism)
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Deep, Promises, Sleep)
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Work, People, Reason, Worry)
"The only way round is through."
- Robert Frost
"The only certain freedom's in departure."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Departure, Freedom)
"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Power, Control, Force, Violence)
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Difference, Wood)
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Love)
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Jokes)
"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Nonsense, Talk)
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Education, Ability, Losing, Self, Temper)
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Education)
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Rain, Weather)
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Change, Education, Life, Trouble)
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
- Robert Frost
"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."
- Robert Frost
(Related: College, Judgment)
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Work, Boss, Day, May)
"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Men, Boss, Being, Lonely, World)
"Freedom lies in being bold."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Being, Freedom, Lies)
"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Successful)
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Promises, Sleep)
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Wisdom, Delight)
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Homesickness, Sense, Wrong)
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Life, Development, Body, Will)
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Mother, Fool, Man, Woman, Years)
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Liberal, Man, Quarrel)
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Jury)
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Age, Birthday, Man, Woman)
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Society, Eccentricity, Sanity)
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Work, People, Rest, World)
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Change, Life, Being)
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Life)
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
- Robert Frost
(Related: History, Power, Washington, World)
"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Quarrel, World)
"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."
- Robert Frost
(Related: People, Nothing, Saying, World)
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Funny, Earth, Man, Worry)
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Words)
"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Country, Russia)
"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Society, Freedom)
"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."
- Robert Frost
(Related: People, Sin)
"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed."
- Robert Frost
"I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Quarrel, World)
"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."
- Robert Frost
(Related: First)
"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Fear, Conservative, Old, Radical)
"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Hell, Right)
"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Music, English, May, Sense, Sound, Writers)
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Happiness)
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Hell)
"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Play, Tennis)
"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Humor, Cowardice)
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Love, Desire)
"I always entertain great hopes."
- Robert Frost
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Books, Order, Talk, Writer)
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Business, Money, Poets, Poor, Talk)
"I go to school the youth to learn the future."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Future, School, Youth)
"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Lovers, Quarrel, World)
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
- Robert Frost
(Related: End, Writing)
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Home)