Popular Robert Frost's Quotes And Sayings

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

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.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The best way out is always through.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The test is always how we treat the poor.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

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.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Life is tons of discipline.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

All great things are done for their own sake.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

End is a gloomy word.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

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.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

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.

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

I always entertain great hopes.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Create and stir other people to create.

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

We love the things we love for what they are.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew