Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
—Robert Frost
Topics: The Military
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Vanity
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Baseball
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, Creativity, General
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poetry, Poets
A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poetry
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: Reason, Thought, Truth
The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Evil
Courage is the human virtue that counts most—courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Knowledge, Challenges, Courage
A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Work, Society
Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Perseverance, Endurance, Resolve, Education
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poetry
Nothing Gold Can Stay.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Gold
What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
—Robert Frost
Topics: Birth
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, “Well, what have we here?”
—Robert Frost
Topics: Skepticism, Doubt
Entertain great hopes.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Hope
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Honesty
The road less traveled made all the difference.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Creativity
I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Education, Teaching, Teachers
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Justice, Law, Lawyers
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
—Robert Frost
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: Marriage, Society
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Jokes, Religion, Life, God
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Thinking, Thoughts, Thought
If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
—Robert Frost
Topics: America
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: Thinking, Work, Thought
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Education, Confidence, Self Confidence, Listening, Society, Ability
The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Deception/Lying, Commitment, Dedication, Lies
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Failure
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
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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