All Robert Frost Quotes
- I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. Conservative
- I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away… Carried
- I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. Down
- The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. Ear
- Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. All
- One aged man - one man - can't fill a house. Aged
- The only certain freedom's in departure. Certain
- Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. Duty
- No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. Atones
- Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. Ails
- You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Dignity
- If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left… Counted
- Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always… Accept
- The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to… Acceptance
- Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life… Agreed
- The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such… Begins
- My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. Avocation
- The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length All
- We love the things we love for what they are. Heart Touching
- The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. Counting
- If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane. All
- Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. Absorb
- Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.… Desire
- There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. Cook
- The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though… Bed