Robert Frost Quotes

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

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

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.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

I have miles to go before I sleep.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

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

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

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

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

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.

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

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

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

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

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

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

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

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

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

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

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

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

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

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

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

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

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.

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

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.

Nature's first green is gold.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

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

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

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

Don't be agnostic - be something.