Robert Frost Quotes
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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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No wonder poets sometimes have to seem. So much more business-like than business men./ Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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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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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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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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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...
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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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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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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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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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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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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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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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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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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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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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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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.