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Robert Frost Quotes |
Robert Frost Biography
- Full Name : Robert Lee Frost
- Born : March 26, 1874 (San Francisco, California, U.S)
- Dead : January 29, 1963 (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S)
- Nationality : American
- Profession : Poet And Author
- University : Harvard University.
- Awards : Bollingen Prize, Pulitzer Prize, And Congressional Gold Medal.
- Spouse : Elinor Miriam White.
- Robert Frost Poems : After Apple-Picking, Mountain Interval, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, A Boy’s Will, The Death of the Hired Man ...
Facts About Robert Frost
- Robert Frost is regarded as one of the most popular 20th century poets.
- When his future wife first refused his marriage proposal he contemplated suicide.
- Robert Frost was the first poet to address a US Presidential Inauguration.
- Robert Frost was a valedictorian of his high school class.
- Robert Frost outlived four of his six children.
- Robert Frost died from complications with surgery.
Robert Frost Quotes
1. “ If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane. ”
— Robert Frost
2. “ Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. ”
— Robert Frost
3. “ 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
4. “ We love the things we love for what they are. ”
— Robert Frost
5. “ What are we? Young or new? We must be something. ”
— Robert Frost
6. “ Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by; and that has made all the difference. ”
— Robert Frost
7. “ Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent. ”
— Robert Frost
8. “ Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. ”
— Robert Frost
9. “ We saw the risk we took in doing good, but dared not spare to do the best we could. ”
— Robert Frost
10. “ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ”
— Robert Frost
11. “ The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. ”
— Robert Frost
12. “ Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. ”
— Robert Frost
13. “ Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. ”
— Robert Frost
14. “ I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ”
— Robert Frost
15. “ The hurt is not enough. I long for weight and strength—to feel the earth as rough to all my length. ”
— Robert Frost
16. “ There are no two things as important to us in life and in art as being threatened and being saved. ”
— Robert Frost
17. “ Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ”
— Robert Frost
18. “ In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life—it goes on. ”
— Robert Frost
19. “ For dear me, why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? ”
— Robert Frost
20. “ A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday, but never remembers her age. ”
— Robert Frost
21. “ Freedom lies in being bold. ”
— Robert Frost
22. “ To be social is to be forgiving. ”
— Robert Frost
23. “ Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on You, and I’ll forgive Your great big one on me. ”
— Robert Frost
24. “ You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. ”
— Robert Frost
25. “ The best way out is always through. ”
— Robert Frost
26. “ One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. ”
— Robert Frost
27. “ For I have promises to keep; and miles to go before I sleep. ”
— Robert Frost
28. “ Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ”
— Robert Frost
29. “ The middle of the road is where the white line is, and that’s the worst place to drive. ”
— Robert Frost
30. “ How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? ”
— Robert Frost
31. “ A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ”
— Robert Frost
32. “ 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
33. “ No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. ”
— Robert Frost
34. “ Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. ”
— Robert Frost
35. “ Good fences make good neighbors. ”
— Robert Frost
36. “ Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. ”
— Robert Frost
37. “ Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. ”
— Robert Frost
38. “ A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body—the wishbone. ”
— Robert Frost
39. “ 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
40. “ He asked with the eyes more than the lips for a shelter for the night. ”
— Robert Frost
41. “ Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ”
— Robert Frost
42. “ Lovers, forget your love, and listen to the love of these—she a window flower, and he a winter breeze. ”
— Robert Frost
43. “ A mother takes twenty years to make a man out of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”
— Robert Frost
44. “ Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ”
— Robert Frost
45. “ Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it your way. ”
— Robert Frost
46. “ I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ”
— Robert Frost
47. “ Before I built a wall, I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. ”
— Robert Frost
48. “ My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, as my two eyes make one in sight. ”
— Robert Frost
49. “ I never dared be radical when young, for fear it would make me conservative when old. ”
— Robert Frost
50. “ The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. ”
— Robert Frost
51. “ The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing. ”
— Robert Frost
52. “ I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ”
— Robert Frost
53. “ I am one who has been acquainted with the night. ”
— Robert Frost
54. “ Like a piece of ice on a hot stove, the poem must ride on its own melting. ”
— Robert Frost
55. “ An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. ”
— Robert Frost
56. “ I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school. ”
— Robert Frost
57. “ We shall be known by the delicacy of where we stop short. ”
— Robert Frost
58. “ Anything more than the truth would be too much. ”
— Robert Frost
59. “ Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. ”
— Robert Frost
60. “ Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. ”
— Robert Frost