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Robert Frost
American
Poet
About the author
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Education
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Service
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
#Wisdom
#Confusion
#Delight
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Mother
#Son
#Republican
#Father
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Writer
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
#Reason
#School
#Impression
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,
American
Poet
#Office
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
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,
American
Poet
#Want
#People
#Society
The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Artist
#Design
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#First
#Writing
#Pressure
#Talking
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
#Art
#Care
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Style
#Saying
#Writer
#Mind
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Will
#World
#End
#Fire
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Road
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Baseball
#Poets
#Moments
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Words
#Thought
#Poetry
#Emotion
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Poetry
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Poetry
#Politics
#Grief
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
#Poetry
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Man
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Mercy
#Injustice
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Writer
#Tears
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#End
#Being
#Memory
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Space
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Profession
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Sorrow
#Rain
#Autumn
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Freedom
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Love
#Mother
#Father
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Winter
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Rank
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Right
#Country
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Writing
#Tennis
What we live by we die by.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Dance
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
#Family
To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Jury
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Thinking
#Voting
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Thought
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Heart
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Quail
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Work
#Disease
#Egotism
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Deep
#Sleep
#Promises
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#People
#Work
#Reason
#Worry
The only way round is through.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Freedom
#Departure
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Power
#Control
#Violence
#Force
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Difference
#Wood
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Love
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Jokes
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Talk
#Nonsense
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Ability
#Self
#Education
#Losing
#Temper
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,
American
Poet
#Weather
#Rain
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
#Trouble
#Education
#Change
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Judgment
#College
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Work
#Day
#May
#Boss
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#World
#Being
#Men
#Boss
#Lonely
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Being
#Freedom
#Lies
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Successful
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Sleep
#Promises
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Wisdom
#Delight
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Sense
#Wrong
#Homesickness
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
#Will
#Body
#Development
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Years
#Man
#Woman
#Mother
#Fool
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Man
#Liberal
#Quarrel
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Jury
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Man
#Woman
#Age
#Birthday
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Society
#Sanity
#Eccentricity
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#People
#Work
#World
#Rest
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
#Being
#Change
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Life
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#World
#Power
#History
#Washington
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#World
#Quarrel
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,
American
Poet
#People
#Nothing
#Saying
#World
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,
American
Poet
#Earth
#Man
#Worry
#Funny
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Words
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Country
#Russia
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Freedom
#Society
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.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#People
#Sin
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#World
#Quarrel
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#First
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Fear
#Conservative
#Old
#Radical
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Right
#Hell
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#May
#Writers
#Sense
#English
#Music
#Sound
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Happiness
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Hell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Play
#Tennis
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Humor
#Cowardice
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Love
#Desire
I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Talk
#Books
#Writer
#Order
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Talk
#Poor
#Money
#Poets
#Business
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Youth
#School
#Future
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#World
#Lovers
#Quarrel
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#End
#Writing
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost,
American
Poet
#Home