Quotes by Robert Frost
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
For slowly even her sense of him And love itself were growing dim....
Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Education
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. Poetry
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Poetry
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
You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.
We turned to other things. I haven't any memory have you?...
We've looked and looked, but after all where are we? Do we know any better where we are,...
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
It's rest I want--there, I have said it out-- From cooking meals for hungry hired men And washing dishes after them--from doing Things over and over that just won't stay done. By good rights I ought not to have so much Put on me, but there seems no other way. Len says one steady pull more ought to do it. He says the best way out is always through . And I agree to that, or in so far As that I can see no way out but through-- Leastways for me--and then they'll be convinced.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. Sports
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,...
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Age
I wonder how I should like you to come to me And offer to put me gently out of my pain.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I choose the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade,...
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. Marriage
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,...
The path was a vague parting in the grass That led us to a weathered windowsill....
Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Bringing him on The shadowy hare For him to rend And deal a death That he nor it (Nor I) have wit To comprehend.
