Robert Frost Quotes

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.

Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

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?

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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

And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

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

Nature's first green is gold.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

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

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

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

I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

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

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

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

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

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

Nothing gold can stay.

Good fences make good neighbors.

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

The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

Love has earth to which she clings.

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

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

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

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

Create and stir other people to create.

All great things are done for their own sake.

I have miles to go before I sleep.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

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

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

What we live by we die by.