Robert Frost Quotes
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The chance is the remotest. Of its going much longer unnoticed. That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race.
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
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It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...