Robert Frost Quotes

“All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.”

“Nature's first green is gold.”

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

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

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”

“I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”

“We disparage reason.But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.”

“Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.”

“It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”

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

“I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.”

“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”

“End is a gloomy word.”

“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'm not a teacher, but an awakener.”

“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.”

“Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.”

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

“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.”

“It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.”

“I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart”

“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”

“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.”

“Now close the windows and hush all the fields:If the trees must, let them silently toss.”

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