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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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Home, Youth

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poets, Poetry

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, and wants it down.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Communication

The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Dedication, Deception/Lying, Commitment, Lies

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, Education, Endurance

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 too much. Create and stir other people to create!
—Robert Frost
Topics: To Be Born Everyday, General, Creativity

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Funny quotes, Career

Poetry is what is lost in translation.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Art, Poetry

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Hell

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Freedom

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Life, Jokes, God, Religion

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

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Society, Education, Ability, Confidence, Self Confidence, Listening

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Thought, Thinking, Work

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
Topics: Communication, World

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poets, Poetry

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: Women, Nature, Fools, Foolishness, Men, Men & Women

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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
—Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poets, Poetry, Art

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
Topics: Achievements, Acceptance

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

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

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
—Robert Frost

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and… it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Truth, Thought, Reason

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Grief, Poetry

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Writers