Robert Frost
sitemanagerI am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in.
Robert Frost
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
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
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
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
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.