Robert Frost Quotes

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

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

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

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.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

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

A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

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

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

If one by one we counted people out

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

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.

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

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

We love the things we love for what they are.

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

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.

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

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

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

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

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

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.