Robert Frost

Quotes

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
The 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.
Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope.
And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.
The best things and the best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
An idea is a feat of association.
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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 as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
The best way out is always through.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.