Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes 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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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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Robert Frost
Topics: Literature, Reading, Books

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

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

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

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost
Topics: Autumn, Seasons

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

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Topics: Living, Purpose, Nature, Life, Meaning, Living Well

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, “Well, what have we here?”
Robert Frost
Topics: Doubt, Skepticism

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

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
Topics: Liberalism, Politics, Open-mindedness

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
Robert Frost
Topics: Work, Society

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

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

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

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
Robert Frost
Topics: Honesty

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
Robert Frost
Topics: Thinking, Thoughts, Thought

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Robert Frost
Topics: Time Management, Time

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
Topics: Joy, Happiness

A man has as much right as a woman to a good cry now and again. The snow gave me shelter; the horse understood and gave me the time.
Robert Frost
Topics: Crying

The only way around is through.
Robert Frost
Topics: General, Success & Failure, Achievement

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
Topics: Diplomacy, Age, Birthdays, Memory

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

All thought is a feat of association; having what’s in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn’t know you knew.
Robert Frost
Topics: Thoughts

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Robert Frost
Topics: Art, Poets, Poetry

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
Topics: Gold

One aged man—one man—can’t fill a house.
Robert Frost
Topics: Loneliness

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

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost
Topics: Fighting, Fight

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

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