Robert Frost Quotes

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

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

We ran as if to meet the moon.

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

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

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

I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also great

The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued.

These 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.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

I always entertain great hopes.

We love the things we love for what they are.

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

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

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

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

Two such as you with such a master speedCannot be parted nor be swept awayFrom one another once you are agreedThat life is only life forevermoreTogether wing to wing and oar to oar

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

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

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

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

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

The only way round is through.

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

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

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

He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

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

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

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.

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

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.

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