Robert Frost Quotes

“I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.”

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.”

“I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.”

“Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.”

“The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.”

“No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.”

“As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.”

“The only way around is through.”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“You're searching...For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.There are only middles.”

“I wonder about the trees.Why do we wish to bearForever the noise of theseMore than another noiseSo close to our dwelling place?”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

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

“There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.”

“Life is tons of discipline.”

“I play better tennis because the court is there.”

“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”

“I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day.”

“Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.”

“A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”

“I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.”

“Not to sink under being man and wife,But get some color and music out of life?”

“I had a lovers quarrel with the world.”