Inspirational Quotes by Robert Frost (American Poet)

Inspirational Quotations by Robert Frost (American Poet)

Robert Frost (1874–1963) was one of America’s most famous poets. This four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize is celebrated for such well-known poems as “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

Frost’s early years were difficult. After quitting Harvard University due to illness at age 25, Frost lived on a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, for 12 years. He woke up early to write poetry and then worked on the farm all day. He was not a successful farmer, and his family grew destitute. Frost sold the farm and moved to Britain in 1911. There, he befriended the poet and essayist Edward Thomas; they regularly took long walks in the English countryside. Thomas’s habitual hesitancy on what path they should stroll amused Frost and inspired his best-known poem, “The Road Not Taken” from Mountain Interval (1920.)

In England, Frost published A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914.) The latter sold 20,000 copies and made him famous. After three years in Britain, Frost returned to America and supported himself through his readings and his writing. Frost’s other books include Mountain Interval (1916,) New Hampshire (1923,) A Further Range (1937,) and A Witness Tree (1943.)

Frost’s poetry is revered to this day for his portrayals of the country life of New England with ordinary people and everyday routines, and his grasp of American colloquial speech.

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Change

I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed.
—Robert Frost

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Evil

Sometimes, the only way out is through.
—Robert Frost

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
—Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Lawyers, Law

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
—Robert Frost
Topics: School, Education

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Failure

Nothing Gold Can Stay
—Robert Frost
Topics: Gold

There is the fear that we shan’t prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man—fear that men won’t understand us and we shall be cut off from them.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Fear

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
—Robert Frost

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.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Power

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Fame

Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Money

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
—Robert Frost

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Reason

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It’s not just that corner that we took away from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
—Robert Frost
Topics: America

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.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Family

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Thinking

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
Topics: Eating

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Beliefs

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that – from this moment forth – you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.
—Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Perseverance, Resolve, Endurance, Education

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Attitude

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Men, Nature, Women, Fools, Men & Women, Foolishness

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
—Robert Frost
Topics: Experience

Devotion

The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.
—Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Losers, Loss, Losing

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Worry

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
—Robert Frost
Topics: America