Robert Frost Quotes

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

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

“I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.”

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

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

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

“Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.”

“I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.”

“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.”

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

“All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.”

“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”

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

“When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.”

“loosely boundBy countless silken ties of love and thoughtTo everything on earth the compass round”

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

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

“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”

“Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.”

“Men work together, whether they work together or apart.”

“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there's a barrel that I didn't fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didn't pick upon some bough.But I am done with apple-picking now.Essence of winter sleep is on the night,The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.”

“Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.”

“... War is for everyone, for children too.I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't.The best way is to come uphill with meAnd have our fire and laugh and be afraid.”

“Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.”

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

“Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?”

“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.”

“The rose is a rose,And was always a rose.But the theory now goesThat the apple's a rose,And the pear is, and so'sThe plum, I suppose.The dear only knowsWhat will next prove a rose.You, of course, are a rose -But were always a rose.”

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.”

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

“Love has earth to which she clings.”

“Create and stir other people to create.”

“Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.”

“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.”

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

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

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.”

“The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.”

“Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,In her complacent ministry of fear,How we propose to get away from hereWhen she has made things so we have to goOr be wiped out. Will she be asked to showUs how by rocket we may hope to steerTo some star off there, say, a half light-yearThrough temperature of absolute zero?Why wait for Science to supply the howWhen any amateur can tell it now?The way to go away should be the sameAs fifty million years ago we came-If anyone remembers how that wasI have a theory, but it hardly does.”

“But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.”

“We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.”

“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”

“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.”

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

“There is much in nature against us. But we forget:Take nature altogether since time began,Including human nature, in peace and war,And it must be a little more in favor of man.”

“Courage is in the air in bracing whiffsBetter than all the stalemate an's and ifs.”