Robert Frost
56 quotations
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
To be social is to be forgiving.
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.