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.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Society, Marriage
To be social is to be forgiving.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Forgiveness, Friendship, Society
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Liberalism, Politics, Open-mindedness
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, Work, Thinking
I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed.
—Robert Frost
You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Freedom
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poetry, Poets, Art
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Heaven
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poets, Poetry
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Jokes, Life, Religion, God
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
Topics: Individuality
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Youth, Home
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
—Robert Frost
If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
—Robert Frost
Topics: America
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Baseball
There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
—Robert Frost
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
The only way around is through.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Success & Failure, Achievement, General
I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Teachers, Teaching, Education
The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Evil
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
—Robert Frost
Topics: Experience
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
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, Reason, Thought
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poetry, Poets
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Willpower, Will Power, World, Will
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Challenges, Work, Bureaucracy, Faith
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Ideas
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Hell
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain.
—Robert Frost
A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Work, Society
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Robert Penn Warren American Novelist, Poet
- Theodore Roethke American Poet
- Stanley Kunitz American Poet
- W. H. Auden British-born American Poet
- Edna St. Vincent Millay American Poet
- John Ciardi American Poet
- James Russell Lowell American Poet, Critic
- William Butler Yeats Irish Poet
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich American Writer
- Celia Thaxter American Poet
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