Quotes by Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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.
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
I always entertain great hopes.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
The only way round is through.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
