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
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