Top 484 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Frost
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Freedom lies in being bold.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
The only way round is through.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
I always entertain great hopes.
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.
What we live by we die by.
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.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The artist in me cries out for design.
The best way out is always through.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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 diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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.
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.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
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.
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
We love things we love what they are.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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