Robert Frost Quotes

Most popular Robert Frost Quotes

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost quote.
Freedom lies in being bold.
— Robert Frost

freedom

Occupy the land with character. - Robert Frost quote.
Occupy the land with character.
— Robert Frost
To be social is to be forgiving. - Robert Frost quote.
To be social is to be forgiving.
— Robert Frost

forgiveness

Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost quote.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
— Robert Frost

theater

An idea is a feat of association. - Robert Frost quote.
An idea is a feat of association.
— Robert Frost
The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost quote.
The best way out is always through.
— Robert Frost

adversity determination motivational

I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost quote.
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

poets interesting

A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost quote.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
— Robert Frost
All the fun is in how you say something. - Robert Frost quote.
All the fun is in how you say something.
— Robert Frost
We love things we love for what they are. - Robert Frost quote.
We love things we love for what they are.
— Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night. - Robert Frost quote.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
— Robert Frost

poets

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost quote.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
— Robert Frost

poetry

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. - Robert Frost quote.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
— Robert Frost Robert Frost

poetry

Anything more than the truth would be too much. - Robert Frost quote.
Anything more than the truth would be too much.
— Robert Frost
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. - Robert Frost quote.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
— Robert Frost
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost quote.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost

sports

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. - Robert Frost quote.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
— Robert Frost
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost quote.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
— Robert Frost

freedom

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. - Robert Frost quote.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
— Robert Frost

law

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost quote.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

happiness

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost quote.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
— Robert Frost

love

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost quote.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
— Robert Frost
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost quote.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost

tennis poets poetry

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost quote.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
— Robert Frost

mistakes

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. - Robert Frost quote.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
— Robert Frost

poets

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost quote.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
— Robert Frost

liberal

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. - Robert Frost quote.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
— Robert Frost Collected Poems

poetry

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. - Robert Frost quote.
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
— Robert Frost in The Atlantic

ideas metaphor

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

life

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost quote.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
— Robert Frost

courts

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost quote.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
— Robert Frost

home

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. - Robert Frost quote.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
— Robert Frost

parents father

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.  Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost quote.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.  Writing a poem is discovering.
— Robert Frost in The New York Times

poets

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. - Robert Frost quote.
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
— Robert Frost Collected Poems

worry

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. - Robert Frost quote.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
— Robert Frost in The Atlantic

grammar

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost quote.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
— Robert Frost
I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost quote.
I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
— Robert Frost
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost quote.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
— Robert Frost

worry work

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. - Robert Frost quote.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
— Robert Frost in The Paris Review

father mother parents

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. - Robert Frost quote.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
— Robert Frost North of Boston

truth change

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost quote.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
— Robert Frost

conservatives

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost quote.
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
— Robert Frost

work

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost quote.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
— Robert Frost

socialism

No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard
Or keeps the end from being hard. - Robert Frost quote.
No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard
Or keeps the end from being hard.
— Robert Frost A Further Range

celebrity

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost quote.
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
— Robert Frost The Michigan Chimes

purpose of life

My object is living is to unite
My avocation with my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight. - Robert Frost quote.
My object is living is to unite
My avocation with my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
— Robert Frost The Saturday Review of Literature

vocation

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds. - Robert Frost quote.
My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
— Robert Frost Robert Frost: The Man and His Work

poetry

There's room for only one person...at the top of the steeple...I always meant that person to be me. - Robert Frost quote.
There's room for only one person...at the top of the steeple...I always meant that person to be me.
— Robert Frost Robert Frost: A Biography

poets

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body—the wishbone. - Robert Frost quote.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body—the wishbone.
— Robert Frost

wish

There are three great things in the world: there is religion, there is science, and there is gossip. - Robert Frost quote.
There are three great things in the world: there is religion, there is science, and there is gossip.
— Robert Frost

gossip

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. - Robert Frost quote.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
— Robert Frost

anger education

The figure a poem makes.  It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.  The figure is the same as for love. - Robert Frost quote.
The figure a poem makes.  It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.  The figure is the same as for love.
— Robert Frost Collected Poems

poetry

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost quote.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
— Robert Frost
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them. - Robert Frost quote.
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
— Robert Frost

status

A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of only one part of his body — the wishbone. - Robert Frost quote.
A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of only one part of his body — the wishbone.
— Robert Frost
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. - Robert Frost quote.
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
— Robert Frost

America

Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost quote.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the road less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost quote.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the road less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost

conformity individuality

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 quote.
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
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost quote.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
— Robert Frost

inspirational

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 quote.
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 Forbes

individuality

The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it. - Robert Frost quote.
The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.
— Robert Frost in The Christian Science Monitor

poetry reading

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 quote.
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

office

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 quote.
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
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 quote.
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.

quarrels

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true. Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. - Robert Frost quote.
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true. Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
— Robert Frost

truth beliefs

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a home-sickness or a love-sickness.  It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment.  A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. - Robert Frost quote.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a home-sickness or a love-sickness.  It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment.  A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
— Robert Frost Robert Frost: The Man and His Work

poetry

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 quote.
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

power

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by.
— Robert Frost

Travel

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
— Robert Frost

career

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
— Robert Frost

education