All Robert Frost Quotes
- I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody. Anybody
- Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way… Best
- When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On… All
- O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle… Amethyst
- The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time,… Age
- There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. Beyond
- A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more. Better
- Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.... Bare
- Don't be an agnostic. Be something. Advice
- You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's… Bad
- Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. Book
- I never take my own side in a quarrel. Inspirational
- Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. Courage
- Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism… Age
- Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form. Chaos
- I play better tennis because the court is there. Better
- I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities... Badly
- Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom. All
- Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God. Alone
- Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain. Alone
- In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Advice
- Freedom lies in being bold. Bold
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Ability
- By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Boss
- A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. Another Woman