Robert Frost Quotes

“Let those possess the land, and only those,Who love it with a love so strong and stupidThat they may be abused and taken advantage ofAnd made fun of by business, law, and art.”

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”

“To be social is to be forgiving.”

“As a confirmed astronomerI'm always for a better sky.”

“I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.”

“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.”

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

“One luminary clock against the skyProclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.”

“Of all crimes the worstIs to steal the gloryFrom the great and brave,Even more accursedThan to rob the grave.”

“I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.”

“And of course there must be something wrongIn wanting to silence any song.”

“Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.But here is not a question of what's sacred;Rather of what to face or run away from.I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.”

“The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.”

“At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.”

“Let's get my incantation right:"I wish I may, I wish I might"Give earth another satellite.”

“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 Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.”

“If one by one we counted people out”

“And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.”

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

“College is a refuge from hasty judgment.”

“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.”

“The Moon for all her light and graceHas never learned to know her place.”

“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”

“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.”