Robert Frost Quotes

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

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.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

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.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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

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

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

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

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

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

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

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

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

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

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

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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

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.

An idea is a feat of association.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

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

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Nothing gold can stay.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

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.

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

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

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.

Nature is always hinting at us.

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

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

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

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.