Robert Frost Quotes (285 Quotes)

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books

There's absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go very slow.... What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

What do we see in such a hole, I wonder.

I sha'n't catch up in this world, anyway.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

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

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.

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

And never overstepped it save in dreams.

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

The thousandth time may prove the charm.

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

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

The difference between a man and his valet they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

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

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

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

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes Will keep my talk from getting overwise, I'm not the one for putting off the proof. Let it be overwhelming.

I am not a teacher but an awakener.

It's God -- I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

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.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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

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

But it's not so: the place is the asylum.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season.

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

Save us from being cornered by a woman.

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when a sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows

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

My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The wonder is I didn't see at once.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue.

Just specimens is all New Hampshire has, One each of everything as in a show-case Which naturally she doesn't care to sell.

Well, now I leave you, people.

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

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

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

It all depends on what you mean by home.

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

He knew a path that wanted walking He knew a spring that wanted drinking A thought that wanted further thinking