Robert Frost Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The only way round is through.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

The only way out is through.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

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

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

I always entertain great hopes.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

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

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

The only way around is through.

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

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

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

What we live by we die by.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

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

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

To be social is to be forgiving.