Robert Frost Quotes

A turning point in modern history.

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

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

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

The only way out is to go through

We ran as if to meet the moon.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

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

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

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

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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)

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.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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.

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.