H.Q. Frost Quotes

Nice to meet you, mate, and here's some advice: Don't even think about it. You try anything with her and I'll neuter you with my bare hands.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

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

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

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

I will never stop loving you. No one can change that. No matter what happens later, I’ll still love you.

Being upbeat is the key to life.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

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

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

We're going to knock those demons out and slay them with the power of Jesus. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?- Timmie

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

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

Movies. Drinks. Headless chickens. You know, girl stuff.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

I’d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Nature's first green is gold.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

We love the things we love for what they are.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

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

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.

The only way round is through.