Robert Frost Quotes

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

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

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholi...

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

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

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

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can ...

The only way round is through.

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

A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out towar...

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

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no on...

The best way out is always through.

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

Two such as you with such a master speedCannot be parted nor be swept awayFrom one another once you ...

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

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

For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true

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

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

We ran as if to meet the moon.

No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.

The only way out is through

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

The ArmfulFor every parcel I stoop down to seizeI lose some other off my arms and knees,And the whol...

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yiel...

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ...

And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but holdAnd freshen in this...

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who wa...

No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm."How ofte...

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

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in p...

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

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown,But one straight, narrow pathway That was not...

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

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

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

GATHERING LEAVESSpades take up leavesNo better than spoons,And bags full of leavesAre light as ballo...

And lonely as it is that lonelinessWill be more lonely ere it will be less--A blanker whiteness of b...

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets mar...

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someo...

I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know ...

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

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I s...

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own wi...

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him...

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't...

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.

To be social is to be forgiving.

The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actua...

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or inve...

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

I always entertain great hopes.

Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hol...

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

The only certain freedom's in departure.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society bec...

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

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society be...

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

Don't be agnostic - be something.

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

There should be more or less of a jumble in your head or on your note paper after the first time and...

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

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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

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

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjec...

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in ...

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

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

We love the things we love for what they are.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

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

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better ...

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not vio...

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.

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

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me...

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...

The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one t...

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

Where had I heard this wind beforeChange like this to a deeper roar?What would it take my standing t...

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

There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.

When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloudAnd goes down burning into the gulf below,No voice in ...