Poet · American · 1874 – 1963 · 101 quotes
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost
Poet · American · 1874 – 1963
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
The only certain freedom's in departure.
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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.
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
The artist in me cries out for design.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Freedom lies in being bold.
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
The best way out is always through.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
To be social is to be forgiving.
I always entertain great hopes.
The only way round is through.
What we live by we die by.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
