The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
– Robert Frost
Love is an irresistible desire to be irrestibly desired.
– Robert Frost
Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
– Robert Frost
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.
– Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
– Robert Frost
The best way out is always through.
– Robert Frost
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
– Robert Frost
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
– Robert Frost
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 were afraid I’d waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
– Robert Frost
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
– Robert Frost
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts.
The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an
immortal wound – that he will never get over it.
– Robert Frost
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
– Robert Frost
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
– Robert Frost
How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
– Robert Frost
You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the
difference.
– Robert Frost
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other
half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
– Robert Frost
Good fences make good neighbours.
– Robert Frost
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama
or nothing.
– Robert Frost
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.
– Robert Frost
The middle of the road is where the white line is and that’s the worst place to drive.
– Robert Frost
The nearest friends can go
With anyone to death, comes so far short
They might as well not try to go at all.
No, from the time when one is sick to death,
One is alone, and he dies more alone.
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 back to life
And living people, and things they understand.
– Robert Frost
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
– Robert Frost
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, as my two eyes make one sight.
– Robert Frost
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 grace to reason
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season
– Robert Frost
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 been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against. With!
– Robert Frost
I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
– 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 just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
– Robert Frost
I turned to speak to God
About the world’s despair
But to make bad matters worse
I found God wasn’t there.
– Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
– Robert Frost
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
– Robert Frost
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more
particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a
Democrat.
– Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
– Robert Frost
I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
– Robert Frost
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s
definition of your life; define yourself.
– Robert Frost
Freedom lies in being bold.
– Robert Frost
And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have
written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
– Robert Frost
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
– Robert Frost
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
– Robert Frost
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
– Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
– Robert Frost
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
– Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
– Robert Frost
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized
society because I want the cream to rise.
– Robert Frost
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and
does not stop until you get into the office.
– Robert Frost
If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.
– Robert Frost
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed,
alcoholism; it’s egotism.
– Robert Frost
If you faithfully work eight hours a day, then you might become a boss and get to work 12
hours a day!
– Robert Frost
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
– Robert Frost
If this uncertain age in which we dwell
Were really as dark as I hear sages tell,
And I convinced that they were really sages,
I should not curse myself with it to hell.
– Robert Frost
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes
Is the deed ever truly done
For Heaven and the future’s sakes.
– Robert Frost
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.
– Robert Frost
These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
– Robert Frost
A brush had left a crooked stroke
Of what was either cloud or smoke
From north to south across the blue;
A piercing little star was through.
– Robert Frost
We love the things we love for what they are.
– Robert Frost
Life is not so sinister-grave.
Matter of fact has made them brave.
He is husband, she is wife.
She fears not him, they fear not life.
– Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.
– Robert Frost
I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
– Robert Frost
I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
– Robert Frost