Words matter. These are the best Robert Frost Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
I always entertain great hopes.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
What we live by we die by.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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.
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 by power.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
The best way out is always through.
Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
To be social is to be forgiving.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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 to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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 control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
