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Robert Frost Quotes

Total quotes: 29
“I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.”
— Robert Frost, Birches
Tagged: poem, Poetry, Earth, Start Over, New Beginning, Escaping, Life, Nature, man and nature
“The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.”
— Robert Frost, A Boy's Will
Tagged: beauty, Nature, Appreciation, Vision
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Robert Frost, A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost
Tagged: Love, desires
“So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”
— Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay
Tagged: Examples of Rhymes, Time, Change, Planetary Rotation, Youth, Nostalgia, Nostalgia for the Good Old Days
“I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.”
— Robert Frost, Laugh! I Thought I'd Die(If I Didn't) : Daily Meditations on Healing through Humor
Tagged: Confused, Self-awareness, humor
“That day she put our heads together fate had her imagination about her.”
— Robert Frost, Tree at my Window
Tagged: Poetry, Fate, Destiny
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
— Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Tagged: dark, Deep, Woods, Promise, Sleep
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
— Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
“Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt it will turn true again, for so it goes.”
— Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
Tagged: Fake It Until You Make It, Make It True
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
— Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Tagged: Journey, Path, travel, Choices, difference
“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, The Star-Splitter
Tagged: Sin, forgiveness, Social
“My dear,
It’s who first thought the thought. 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.”
— Robert Frost, Mountain Interval
Tagged: Searching, Thought, Journey, Existence, present, Now
“Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.”
— Robert Frost, A Masque of Mercy
Tagged: Courage, heart, Fear, Soul
“Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
— Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
Tagged: Change, Truth, favor, Life
“One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.”
— Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
Tagged: Time, Clock, Night
“And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope”
— Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man
Tagged: Looking Back, Reminisce, Looking Ahead, Hope, Pride
“Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air”
— Robert Frost, To Earthward
Tagged: Love, Lips, romance
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ”
— Robert Frost, Letter to Louis Untermeyer
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Writing, Words
“We've looked and looked, but after all where are we?
Do we know any better where we are,
And how it stands between the night tonight
And a man with a smoky lantern chimney?
How different from the way it ever stood?”
— Robert Frost, The Star-Splitter
Tagged: Searching, Knowing, Destiny, Journey
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
— Robert Frost, Letter to Louis Untermeyer
Tagged: poem, Poetry, Feeling, expression, Fulfillment, Emotion, Words
“But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For heaven and the future´s sakes.”
— Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
Tagged: separation, Unity, Love, Work
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
— Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Classic Love Quotes, love quotes, Timeless Love Quotes
“I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”
— Robert Frost, Birches
Tagged: Going Away, Earth, Love
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
— Robert Frost, Fire and Ice
Tagged: Fire, ice, Desire, Destruction
“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
— Robert Frost, Robert Frost's Poems
Tagged: laugh, Laughter
“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”
— Robert Frost, Mowing
Tagged: Labor, Dream, fact
“The best way out is always through.”
— Robert Frost, A Servant to Servants
Tagged: way, solution, Answer, Way Out
“I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.”
— Robert Frost, The Sound of the Trees
Tagged: voice, Journey, Path, Individualism
“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.”
— Robert Frost, The Poetry of Amy Lowell
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Reading, Reader, Feeling, impact
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