Robert Frost Quotes

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”

“Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.”

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.”

“You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.”

“You can't get too much winter in the winter.”

“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.”

“I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.”

“I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.”

“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”

“Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.”

“A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden"A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”

“I am one who has been acquainted with the night”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.”

“Summary riposteTo the dreary wailThere's no knowing whatLove is all about.Poets know a lot.”

“When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.”

“Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!”

“Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“The test is always how we treat the poor.”

“Love has earth to which she clings.”

“I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.”

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”