Robert Frost famous quotes

The best way out is always through.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Positive #Encouraging

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Inspirational #Life

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Inspirational #Sleep

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
-- Robert Frost

#Expression #Effort #Emotion

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
-- Robert Frost

#Way #Hell

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.
-- Robert Frost

#Funny #Life #Motivational

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-- Robert Frost

#Birthday #Growing Up #Carpe Diem

Freedom lies in being bold.
-- Robert Frost

#Being Strong #Veterans Day #Memorial Day

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
-- Robert Frost

#Funny #Motivational #Hilarious

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

Good fences make good neighbors.
-- Robert Frost

#Misunderstood #Neighbor #Fence

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Life #Positive

All great things are done for their own sake.
-- Robert Frost

#Sake #Done #Great Things

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
-- Robert Frost

#Clever #Philosophy #Secret

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-- Robert Frost

#Life #Happiness #Yoga

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...
-- Robert Frost

#Dark #Night #Age

We ran as if to meet the moon.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Life #Moon

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
-- Robert Frost

#Book #Reflection #Order

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
-- Robert Frost

#Eye #People #Missing

The only way round is through.
-- Robert Frost

#Wisdom #Work #Way

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
-- Robert Frost

#Book #Reading #Writing

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)
-- Robert Frost

#Boys #Men #Imagination

I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.
-- Robert Frost

#Flower #Blue #Lasts

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

#Money #Icy #Remember

A poem begins with a lump in the throat
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Writing #Poetry

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
-- Robert Frost

#Teacher

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
-- Robert Frost

#Safe #World #Metaphor

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
-- Robert Frost

#Choices

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

#Art #Brave #Fine

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.
-- Robert Frost

#Garden #Order #Color

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
-- Robert Frost

#Nature

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?
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Heart #Acceptance

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Life #Morning

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
-- Robert Frost

#Writing #Ears #Icy

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.
-- Robert Frost

#Years #Land #People

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Life #Writing

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
-- Robert Frost

#Country #Littles #Grammar

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Education #Teacher

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Life #Motivational

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

#Marriage #Funny Love #Men

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

#Wall #Men #Garden

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

#Lonely #Men #Boss

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
-- Robert Frost

#Baseball #Writing #Distinction

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
-- Robert Frost

#Life #Forgiveness #God

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
-- Robert Frost

#Baseball #Poetry #Tough

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

#Work #Champion #Overwork

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
-- Robert Frost

#Powerful #Writing #Poetry

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

#Crazy #Mad #Society

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

#Education #Life Changing #Aging

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.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Funny #Life

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Motivational #Attitude

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
-- Robert Frost

#Kindness #Heart #Compassion

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
-- Robert Frost

#Life #Attitude #Memorial

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
-- Robert Frost

#Grief #Poetry #Political

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspiration #Poetry #Delight

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

#Family #Mom #Fathers Day

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
-- Robert Frost

#Icy #Cowardice #Engaging

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
-- Robert Frost

#Goodbye #Mean #Ends

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

#Inspirational #Education #Patience

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
-- Robert Frost

#Interpretation #Lost #Poetry Is

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Life #Writing

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
-- Robert Frost

#Mothers Day #Mom #Women

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.
-- Robert Frost

#Art #Believe #Writing

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

#Forgiveness #Thinking #Forgive Me

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Funny #Witty

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
-- Robert Frost

#Poetry #Emotion #Found

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
-- Robert Frost

#Friendship #New York #Emotional

O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.
-- Robert Frost

#Morning #Fall #Heart

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

#Change #Life And Love #Advice

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

#Sports #Play #Tennis

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
-- Robert Frost

#Family #Mother #Dad

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
-- Robert Frost

#Nature #Hints

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

#Love #Life #Lying

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
-- Robert Frost

#Successful #Law #Feet

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
-- Robert Frost

#Peace #Reason #Should

To be social is to be forgiving.
-- Robert Frost

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Society

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
-- Robert Frost

#Education #Philosophy #Teaching

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

#Being Yourself #People #Inspire

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
-- Robert Frost

#Teaching #Sight #Might

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Beautiful #Rain

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

#Law #America #Justice

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
-- Robert Frost

#Motivational #Jobs #Careers

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
-- Robert Frost

#Education #Teacher

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
-- Robert Frost

#Injustice #Mercy

The artist in me cries out for design.
-- Robert Frost

#Artist #Design #Artistic

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.
-- Robert Frost

#Way #Found

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

#Icy #Changed #Find Me

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Life #Poetry

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
-- Robert Frost

#Done

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

#Writing #Poetry #Tennis

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
-- Robert Frost

#Funny #College #Judgment

I always entertain great hopes.
-- Robert Frost

#Inspirational #Hope #Business

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
-- Robert Frost

#Business #Drinking #Alcohol

Writing a poem is discovering.
-- Robert Frost

#Writing #Discovering

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
-- Robert Frost

#Gold #Engagement #Jewelry

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Life #Strength

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
-- Robert Frost

#Grief #Flower #Eden

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
-- Robert Frost

#Love #Life #Thinking

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.
-- Robert Frost

#Change #Heart #Dust