Quotes by Robert Frost
There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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 am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man-fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut off from them.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
