--- title: "Best Poetry Quotes by Robert Frost" description: "72 Poetry quotes by Robert Frost. Plus more from Robert Frost and more Poetry sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/206/robert-frost-371_poetry_i-have-never-started-a-poem-yet-whose-en_222376.png" --- > [I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/i-have-never-started-a-poem-yet-whose-end-i-knew-writing-a-poem-is/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/206/robert-frost-371_poetry_i-have-never-started-a-poem-yet-whose-en_222376.png) > [Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/nearly-everybody-is-looking-for-something-brave-to-do-i-don-t-know/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab4/robert-frost-371_brave_nearly-everybody-is-looking-for-somethin_791409.png) > [Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/every-poem-is-a-momentary-stay-against-the-confusion-of-the-world/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/robert-frost-371_confusion_every-poem-is-a-momentary-stay-against-t_1161460.png) > [I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/i-ve-given-offense-by-saying-i-d-as-soon-write-free-verse-as-play/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e3/robert-frost-371_free-verse_i-ve-given-offense-by-saying-i-d-as-soon_1862438.png) > [Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/like-a-piece-of-ice-on-a-hot-stove-the-poem-must-ride-on-its-own/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/robert-frost-371_hot_like-a-piece-of-ice-on-a-hot-stove-the-p_637102.png) > [A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/a-poem-may-be-worked-over-once-it-is-in-being-but-may-not-be-worried/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/813/robert-frost-371_may_a-poem-may-be-worked-over-once-it-is-in_3229511.png) > [Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/poetry-is-a-reaching-out-forward-expression-an-effort-to-find/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d3/robert-frost-371_effort_poetry-is-a-reaching-out-forward-express_2152811.png) > [Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/poets-need-not-go-to-niagara-to-write-about-the-force-of-falling-water/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9b/robert-frost-371_fall_poets-need-not-go-to-niagara-to-write-ab_2263475.png) > [There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/there-are-three-things-after-all-that-a-poem-must-reach-the-eye-the/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fa/robert-frost-371_books_there-are-three-things-after-all-that-a_583336.png) > [You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/you-re-always-believing-ahead-of-your-evidence-what-was-the-evidence/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f9/robert-frost-371_art_you-re-always-believing-ahead-of-your-ev_2717882.jpg) > [“Lovers, Forget Your love, And List To The Love Of These, She A Window Flower, And He A Winter Breeze.” -Robert Frost”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/lovers-forget-your-love-and-list-to-the-love-of-these-she-a-window-3/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/477/robert-frost-371_love_lovers-forget-your-love-and-list-to-the_3109943.png) > [Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/freedom-is-slavery-some-poets-tell-us-enslave-yourself-to-the-right/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/robert-frost-371_christ_freedom-is-slavery-some-poets-tell-us-en_521289.png) > [It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/it-is-absurd-to-think-that-the-only-way-to-tell-if-a-poem-is-lasting/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ad/robert-frost-371_absurd_it-is-absurd-to-think-that-the-only-way_1298408.jpg) > [Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/before-now-poetry-has-taken-notice-of-wars-and-what-are-wars-but/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74a/robert-frost-371_bloody_before-now-poetry-has-taken-notice-of-wa_2200783.png) > [“I could give all to Time except -- except What I myself have held. But why declare The things forbidden that while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/i-could-give-all-to-time-except-except-what-i-myself-have-held-but/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/454/robert-frost-371_friendship_i-could-give-all-to-time-except-except-w_1553455.png) > [Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/never-discuss-the-poem-you-contemplate-writing-it-s-like-turning-on/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/robert-frost-371_bathroom_never-discuss-the-poem-you-contemplate-w_293415.png) > [Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/of-course-there-is-matter-for-remark-in-poems-nobody-denies-that-but/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/robert-frost-371_courses_of-course-there-is-matter-for-remark-in_539252.png) > [Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/poetry-begins-in-trivial-metaphors-pretty-metaphors-grace-metaphors/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/robert-frost-371_diffidence_poetry-begins-in-trivial-metaphors-prett_463621.png) > [The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-poet-as-everyone-knows-must-strike-his-individual-note-sometime/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/robert-frost-371_age_the-poet-as-everyone-knows-must-strike-h_2155787.jpg) > [A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/a-poem-begins-with-a-lump-in-the-throat-a-homesickness-or-a-love/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/robert-frost-371_effort_a-poem-begins-with-a-lump-in-the-throat_3213646.png) > [I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/i-have-just-been-to-a-city-in-the-west-a-city-full-of-poets-a-city/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/robert-frost-371_appreciate_i-have-just-been-to-a-city-in-the-west-a_1608152.jpg) > [Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/poetry-should-be-common-in-experience-but-uncommon-in-books/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fa/robert-frost-371_book_poetry-should-be-common-in-experience-bu_2694343.png) > [I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/i-hope-to-leave-behind-a-few-poems-it-will-be-hard-to-get-rid-of/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/robert-frost-371_behinds_i-hope-to-leave-behind-a-few-poems-it-wi_2422236.png) > [Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/let-s-get-my-incantation-right-i-wish-i-may-i-wish-i-might-give-earth/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/465/robert-frost-371_earth_let-s-get-my-incantation-right-i-wish-i_2282875.png) > [A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/a-poem-begins-as-a-lump-in-the-throat-a-sense-of-wrong-a-homesickness/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60b/robert-frost-371_homesickness_a-poem-begins-as-a-lump-in-the-throat-a_2937836.png) > [Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/poets-like-shakespeare-know-more-about-poetry-than-any-25-an-hour-man/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd7/robert-frost-371_hours_poets-like-shakespeare-know-more-about-p_3152317.png) > [Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/summary-riposte-to-the-dreary-wail-there-s-no-knowing-what-love-is/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/robert-frost-371_dreary_summary-riposte-to-the-dreary-wail-there_2623625.png) > [“But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/but-no-i-was-out-for-stars-i-would-not-come-in-i-meant-not-even-if/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/939/robert-frost-371_asked_but-no-i-was-out-for-stars-i-would-not-c_1524349.png) > [The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-figure-a-poem-makes-it-begins-in-delight-and-ends-in-wisdom/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/robert-frost-371_delight_the-figure-a-poem-makes-it-begins-in-del_2312285.png) > [I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/i-am-not-a-nature-poet-there-is-almost-always-a-person-in-my-poems/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fb/robert-frost-371_nature_i-am-not-a-nature-poet-there-is-almost-a_694813.png) > [Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/poetry-is-the-renewal-of-words-setting-them-free-and-that-s-what-a/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/robert-frost-371_poet_poetry-is-the-renewal-of-words-setting-t_1714180.png) > [“More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/more-than-once-i-should-have-lost-my-soul-to-radicalism-if-it-had/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/robert-frost-371_creativity_more-than-once-i-should-have-lost-my-sou_394493.png) ## Other authors on Poetry - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-melody-lee-1672.jpg) Melody Lee 207 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/melody-lee/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 146 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edward-hirsch-31825.jpg) Edward Hirsch 138 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/edward-hirsch/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dejan-stojanovic-28518.jpg) Dejan Stojanovic 133 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/dejan-stojanovic/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 111 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-alfa-h-4410.jpg) Alfa H 105 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/alfa-h/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mary-oliver-65135.jpg) Mary Oliver 99 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/mary-oliver/) - [Atticus Poetry 92 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/atticus-poetry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-bukowski-22166.jpg) Charles Bukowski 89 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/charles-bukowski/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walt-whitman-94308.jpg) Walt Whitman 82 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/walt-whitman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 78 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-billy-collins-18123.jpg) Billy Collins 77 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/billy-collins/) ## More by Robert Frost > [The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-brain-is-a-wonderful-organ-it-starts-working-when-you-get-up-in/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/when-i-see-birches-bend-to-left-and-right-i-like-to-think-some-boy-s/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-promising-young-poets-the-hopefuls-i-d-name-richard-wilbur-peter/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/lord-i-have-loved-your-sky-be-it-said-against-or-for-me-have-loved-it/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/let-him-that-is-without-stone-among-you-cast-the-first-thing-he-can/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/it-is-only-a-moment-here-and-a-moment-there-that-the-greatest-writer/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/and-of-course-there-must-be-something-wrong-in-wanting-to-silence-any/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/there-are-two-kinds-of-teachers-the-kind-that-fill-you-with-so-much/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-rose-is-a-rose-and-was-always-a-rose-but-now-the-theory-goes-that/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/forgive-o-lord-my-little-jokes-on-thee-and-i-ll-forgive-thy-great-big/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/what-an-exciting-age-it-is-we-live-in-with-all-this-talk-about-the/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [The footpath down to the well is healed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-footpath-down-to-the-well-is-healed/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/there-is-the-fear-that-we-shan-t-prove-worthy-in-the-eyes-of-someone/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/it-s-god-i-recognised-him-from-blake-s-picture/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) > [Create and stir other people to create.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/create-and-stir-other-people-to-create/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/robert-frost/#itemlist", "name": "Best Poetry Quotes by Robert Frost", "numberOfItems": 32, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. 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