Robert Frost Quotes

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Life is tons of discipline.

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

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.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

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

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

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.

In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.

End is a gloomy word.

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

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

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

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

I play better tennis because the court is there.

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

Create and stir other people to create.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

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

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

The only way out is to go through

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.