Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Quotes

• 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.