Robert Frost Quotes (285 Quotes)


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



    Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend

    Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.


    Piling up knowledge is as bad as piling up money. You have to begin sometime to kick around what you know.

    All those who try to go it sole alone Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

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

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

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

    The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

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

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

    Two that don't love can't live together without them.

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

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


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

    And yet with neither love nor hate,
    Those starts like somw snow-white
    Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
    Without the gift of sight.



    Not yesterday I learned to know
    The love of bare November days
    Before the coming of the snow,
    But it were vain to tell he so,
    And they are better for her praise.

    Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

    For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing ... is discovering.

    We heard the miniature thunder where he fled.

    But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.


    Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

    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.

    Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

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

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

    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.



    Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

    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. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.


    We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely countrythe best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

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

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

    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.

    Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.


    But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

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

    Time and tide wait for no man, but time stands still for a woman of 30.

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

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



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