All Robert Frost Quotes
- Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. Brave
- Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more… Any
- Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart. Any
- Democracy is the best chance for the best people. Best
- How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always… Always Hinting
- The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. Dream
- Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents… Bird
- I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none. Choice
- Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment Effort
- I still say the only education worth anything is self-education. Education
- I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more. Always Saying
- Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. Declare
- Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out… Almost Like
- When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them. Been
- Writing a poem is discovering. Discovering
- I am not a teacher. I am an awakener. Awakener
- All great things are done for their own sake. All
- Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. Fall
- Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times;… Forever
- I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat… All
- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one… Bent
- It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling. Adapted
- I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over. Awhile
- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen. Broken
- The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. Evil