Robert Frost Quotes

“Nature is always hinting at us.”

“What an exciting age it is we live inWith all this talk about the hope of youthAnd nothing made of youth.”

“Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment”

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

“Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.”

“I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.”

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

“The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.”

“Create and stir other people to create.”

“Let me be the one To do what is done.”

“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”

“To Time it never seems that he is braveTo set himself against the peaks of snowTo lay them level with the running wave,Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,But only grave, contemplative and grave.”

“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”

“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”

“You know how cunningly mankind is planned:We have one loving and one hating hand.The loving's made to hold each other like,While with the hating other hand we strike.”

“If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.”

“Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.”

“Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.”

“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.”

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

“Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.”

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

“When I was young my teachers were the old.I gave up fire for form till I was cold.”

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

“Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.”