All Robert Frost Quotes
- When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they… Afraid
- Anything more than the truth would be too much. Inspirational
- When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to… All
- Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain. Come Forth
- I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest… Acquainted
- One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Birches
- I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school. Believe
- 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… Accept
- He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to… Everything Said
- What are we? Young or new? We must be something. Funny
- Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.... Earth
- GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of… All
- The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of… Agreed
- The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Afternoon
- The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of… Care
- Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting. Agree
- Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. Better
- I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. Down
- I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there. Bad
- Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… All
- You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. Brain
- A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find… Begins
- The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away.… All
- For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true Abandon
- Nothing gold can stay. Gold