Top 350 Robert Frost Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

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3. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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5. “I have miles to go before I sleep...”

— Robert Frost

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6. “Freedom lies in being bold.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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8. “How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

10. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

— Robert Frost

11. “I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.”

— Robert Frost

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12. “Good fences make good neighbors.”

— Robert Frost

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13. “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

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14. “Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”

— Robert Frost

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15. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

— Robert Frost

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16. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

18. “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.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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20. “To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

— Robert Frost

21. “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

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22. “We love the things we love for what they are.”

— Robert Frost

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23. “Nothing gold can stay.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

25. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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27. “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

28. “Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”

— Robert Frost

29. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

— Robert Frost

30. “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ”

— Robert Frost

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31. “When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.”

— Robert Frost

32. “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.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

34. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.”

— Robert Frost

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35. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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38. “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

40. “The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

42. “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

— Robert Frost

43. “A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.”

— Robert Frost

44. “If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.”

— Robert Frost

45. “I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.”

— Robert Frost

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46. “Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

49. “Writing a poem is discovering.”

— Robert Frost

50. “Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.”

— Robert Frost