Robert Frost

We love the things we love for what they are.

— Robert Frost

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

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

But no, I was out for stars:

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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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

— Robert Frost

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

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

— Robert Frost

I would not come in.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

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

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

— Robert Frost

What we live by we die by.

— Robert Frost

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

— Robert Frost

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

— Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

— Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,

— Robert Frost

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

— Robert Frost

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

— Robert Frost

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

I could give all to Time except -- except

— Robert Frost

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

— Robert Frost

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

— Robert Frost

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

— Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

— Robert Frost

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

— Robert Frost

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

— Robert Frost

The artist in me cries out for design.

— Robert Frost

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

— Robert Frost

To be social is to be forgiving.

— Robert Frost

The best way out is always through.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

— Robert Frost

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

— Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

— Robert Frost

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

— Robert Frost

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

— Robert Frost

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

— Robert Frost

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

— Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

— Robert Frost

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

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

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

— Robert Frost

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

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

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

— Robert Frost

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

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

— Robert Frost

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

— Robert Frost

The only certain freedom's in departure.

— Robert Frost

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

— Robert Frost

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

— Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

— Robert Frost

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

— Robert Frost

The best way out is always through.

— Robert Frost

We dance round in a ring and suppose,

— Robert Frost

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

— Robert Frost

There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.

— Robert Frost

Ah, when to the heart of man Of a love or a season?

— Robert Frost

The rain to the wind said,

— Robert Frost

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I sha’n’t be gone long. — You come too.

— Robert Frost

And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope.

— Robert Frost

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

— Robert Frost

The nearest friends can go And living people, and things they understand.

— Robert Frost

Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

— Robert Frost

The best way out is always through.

— Robert Frost

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree But I am done with apple-picking now.

— Robert Frost

By good rights I ought not to have so much Leastways for me — and then they’ll be convinced.

— Robert Frost

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

— Robert Frost

I always have felt strange when we came home At one door as we entered at another.

— Robert Frost

To warm the frozen swamp as best it could With the slow smokeless burning of decay.

— Robert Frost

“Men work together,” I told him from the heart, “Whether they work together or apart.”

— Robert Frost

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

— Robert Frost

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

— Robert Frost

A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

— Robert Frost

I shall be telling this with a sigh And that has made all the difference.

— Robert Frost

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.

— Robert Frost

"Don't let him cut my hand off— So. But the hand was gone already.

— Robert Frost

Her crop was a miscellany A great deal of none.

— Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

— Robert Frost

Fireflies in the Garden

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But he sent her Good-by, And do everything!

— Robert Frost

Something inspires the only cow of late And think no more of wall-builders than fools.

— Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

— Robert Frost

My apple trees will never get across He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

— Robert Frost

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know That wants it down.

— Robert Frost

He moves in darkness as it seems to me, He says again, “Good fences make good neighbours.”

— Robert Frost

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

— Robert Frost

He saw her from the bottom of the stairs From up there always?—for I want to know."

— Robert Frost

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

— Robert Frost

She let him look, sure that he wouldn't see, But at last he murmured, "Oh," and again, "Oh."

— Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

— Robert Frost

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

The little graveyard where my people are! So small the window frames the whole of it.

— Robert Frost

'My words are nearly always an offense. I should suppose. I can't say I see how.

— Robert Frost

'I can repeat the very words you were saying: They might as well not try to go at all.

— Robert Frost

My Sorrow, when she’s here with me, She walks the sodden pasture lane.

— Robert Frost

Her pleasure will not let me stay. Is silver now with clinging mist.

— Robert Frost

The desolate, deserted trees, And vexes me for reason why.

— Robert Frost

Not yesterday I learned to know And they are better for her praise.

— Robert Frost

The Telephone

— Robert Frost

The Hyla breed Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow.

— Robert Frost

We love the things we love for what they are.

— Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. And miles to go before I sleep.

— Robert Frost

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

“My dear, There are only middles.

— Robert Frost

I’d like to get away from earth awhile I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

— Robert Frost

I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree, One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

— Robert Frost

I shall set forth for somewhere, But I shall be gone.

— Robert Frost

If one by one we counted people out For to be social is to be forgiving.

— Robert Frost

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

— Robert Frost

We've looked and looked, but after all where are we? How different from the way it ever stood?

— Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

— Robert Frost

Do you know, Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

— Robert Frost

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

— Robert Frost

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

— Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold, Nothing gold can stay.

— Robert Frost

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

— Robert Frost

Why make so much of fragmentary blue When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue.

— Robert Frost

Acquainted with the Night

— Robert Frost

And then we saw him bolt. Like a shadow across instead of behind the flakes.

— Robert Frost

Love at the lips was touch I lived on air

— Robert Frost

How often already you've had to be told, I have to be gone for a season or so.

— Robert Frost

The birds that came to it through the air From too much dwelling on what has been.

— Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

— Robert Frost

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. 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

Freedom lies in being bold.

— Robert Frost

You could not tell, and yet it looked as if Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

— Robert Frost

Tree at my window, window tree, Between you and me.

— Robert Frost

That day she put our heads together, Mine with inner, weather.

— Robert Frost

One luminary clock against the sky I have been one acquainted with the night.

— Robert Frost

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

If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes And blind me to a standstill if it must.

— Robert Frost

The way a crow

— Robert Frost

It must be the brook What we are.

— Robert Frost

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. And there is something sending up the sun.

— Robert Frost

The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me.

— Robert Frost

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. A least lyric alone may have a hard time, but it can make a beginning, and lyric will be piled on lyric till all are easily heard as sung or spoken by a person in a scene — in character, in a setting. By whom, where and when is the question.

— Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

— Robert Frost

A dramatic necessity goes deep into the nature of the sentence. Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic.

— Robert Frost

I have miles to go before I sleep

— Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know. To watch his woods fill up with snow.

— Robert Frost

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

My little horse must think it queer The darkest evening of the year.

— Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, And miles to go before I sleep.

— Robert Frost

Let me be the one To do what is done.

— Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

— Robert Frost

I turned to speak to God At least not over half.

— Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

— Robert Frost

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

— Robert Frost

And be all plunderers curst. Of being brought down to the real.

— Robert Frost

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

— Robert Frost

Dust always blowing about the town, Some of the blowing dust was gold.

— Robert Frost

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

All the dust the wind blew high Some of the dust was really gold.

— Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

— Robert Frost

Such was life in the Golden Gate: 'We all must eat our peck of gold.

— Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

— Robert Frost

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

— Robert Frost

GATHERING LEAVES

— Robert Frost

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

— Robert Frost

The best way out is always through.

— Robert Frost

Don’t join too many gangs. Join few if any. But not much in between, unless a college.

— Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

— Robert Frost

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. And you´re two months back in the middle of March.

— Robert Frost

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

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

But yield who will to their separation, For heaven and the future´s sakes.

— Robert Frost

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

The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.

— Robert Frost

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

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

Who said it mattered / what monkeys did or didn't understand? / They might not understand the burning-glass. / They might not understand the sun itself. / It's knowing what to do with things that counts.

— Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

— Robert Frost

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second. My mouth is sealed for the duration of my stay here. I'm not even going to write letters around to explain to collectors my not having had any Christmas card this year. I'm not going to explain anything personal any more.

— Robert Frost

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

— Robert Frost

The land may vary more; And the people look at the sea.

— Robert Frost

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

— Robert Frost

Never ask of money spent What he did with every cent.

— Robert Frost

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

Wind goes from farm to farm in wave on wave, But the strong are saying nothing until they see.

— Robert Frost

The only way round is through.

— Robert Frost

Two such as you with such a master speed Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

— Robert Frost

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

— Robert Frost

‘Twas Age imposed on poems And yet not know they have it.

— Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

— Robert Frost

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

— Robert Frost

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

— Robert Frost

I always entertain great hopes.

— Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting … Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

— Robert Frost

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

— Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

— Robert Frost

Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspect they differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

— Robert Frost

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

— Robert Frost

The land was ours before we were the land's. Before we were her people.

— Robert Frost

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

— Robert Frost

Such as we were we gave ourselves outright Such as she was, such as she would become.

— Robert Frost

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

— Robert Frost

She is as in a field a silken tent So that in guys it gently sways at ease.

— Robert Frost

We love things we love what they are.

— Robert Frost

But strictly held by none, is loosely bound Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

— Robert Frost

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

— Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

— Robert Frost

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

— Robert Frost

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

— Robert Frost

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

— Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

— Robert Frost

She drew back; he was calm With the tender-headed flower.

— Robert Frost

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

He would declare and could himself believe Her tone of meaning but without the words.

— Robert Frost

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

— Robert Frost

We disparage reason. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

Deliver us from committees.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

— Robert Frost

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

Have I not walked without an upward look It was a risk I had to take — and took.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

I stopped my song and almost heart, That looks in onto a mood apart.

— Robert Frost

Freedom lies in being bold.

— Robert Frost

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

— Robert Frost

All those who try to go it sole alone, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

— Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

— Robert Frost

Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

— Robert Frost

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

— Robert Frost

O Star (the fairest one in sight) Say something! And it says "I burn."

— Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

— Robert Frost

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

It asks a little of us here. To stay our minds on and be staid.

— Robert Frost

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

— Robert Frost

If this uncertain age in which we dwell I should not curse myself with it to hell

— Robert Frost

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

— Robert Frost

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

— Robert Frost

They've tried to grasp with too much social fact That's how we feel — and we're no special mystics.

— Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

— Robert Frost

For dear me, why abandon a belief

— Robert Frost

We can't appraise the time in which we act. We know enough to know it for adverse.

— Robert Frost

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

I have kept hidden in the instep arch Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

— Robert Frost

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

— Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

— Robert Frost

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

— Robert Frost

The heart can think of no devotion

— Robert Frost

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

— Robert Frost

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

— Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

— Robert Frost

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

— Robert Frost

People are inexterminable — like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices — that’s us.

— Robert Frost

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

— Robert Frost

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

— Robert Frost

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

— Robert Frost

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

— Robert Frost

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

— Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

— Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

— Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

— Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

— Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

— Robert Frost

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost

I am assured at any rate To start the world all over at.

— Robert Frost

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

— Robert Frost

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

— Robert Frost

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

— Robert Frost

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

— Robert Frost

Till we came to be Anywhere in space.

— Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

— Robert Frost

It is the future that creates his present. All is an interminable chain of longing.

— Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

“Well, who begun it?” Or what it was foughten for.

— 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

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

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

— Robert Frost

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

— Robert Frost

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

You've often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

— Robert Frost

All out of doors looked darkly in at him That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.

— Robert Frost

Summoning artists to participate

— Robert Frost

Today is for my cause a day of days.

— Robert Frost

And this is no aristocratic joke

— Robert Frost

"New order of the ages" did they say?

— Robert Frost

We ran as if to meet the moon.

— Robert Frost

Everyone knows the glory of the twain

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

Come fresh from an election like the last,

— Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

— Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

— Robert Frost

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

— Robert Frost

It makes the prophet in us all presage Of which this noonday's the beginning hour.

— Robert Frost

Ah, when to the heart of man

— Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.

— 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

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

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

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

— Robert Frost

I always entertain great hopes.

— Robert Frost

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

— Robert Frost

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

— Robert Frost

I'd like to get away from earth awhile

— Robert Frost

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

— Robert Frost

I always entertain great hopes.

— Robert Frost

The only certain freedom's in departure.

— Robert Frost

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

— Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

— Robert Frost

INTO MY OWN

— Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

— Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

— Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

— Robert Frost