Robert Frost Quotes

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

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

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

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

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. 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; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

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?

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

The only way around is through.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

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

The only certain freedom's in departure.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.

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

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.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Nature is always hinting at us.