Quotes by
Robert Frost |
1874-1963 , American poet
American poet; winner of four Pulitzer Prizes. | 43 quotes | 3,560 visits |
Quotations
| • | The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. 17 |
| • | Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. 8 |
| • | Poetry is what gets lost in translation. 7 |
| • | Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. 6 |
| • | A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. 6 |
| • | A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. 5 |
| • | Freedom lies in being bold. 5 |
| • | The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. 4 |
| • | A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. 4 |
| • | Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. 4 |
| • | Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting. 4 |
| • | In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on. 3 |
| • | The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. 3 |
| • | The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. 3 |
| • | Humor is the most engaging cowardice. 3 |
| • | Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. 3 |
| • | Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. 2 |
| • | How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail. 2 |
| • | Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. 2 |
| • | The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive. 2 |
| • | A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words. 2 |
Quotes in Verse
| • | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. 11 |
| • | We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. 7 |
| • | Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. 5 |
| • | Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. 5 |
| • | Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain. 4 |
| • | But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. 4 |
| • | Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. 4 |
| • | Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. 4 |
| • | Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. 3 |
| • | Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. 3 |
| • | One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. 3 |
| • | The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me. 3 |
| • | The best way out is always through. 2 |
| • | The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. 2 |
| • | The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup. 2 |
Funny Quotes
| • | A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. 4 |
| • | There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. 3 |
| • | 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. 2 |
