Top 350 Robert Frost Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

53. “There’s nothing I’m afraid of like scared people.”

— Robert Frost

54. “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.”

— Robert Frost

55. “One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

— Robert Frost

56. “I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

58. “And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.”

— Robert Frost

59. “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down.”

— Robert Frost

60. “Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.”

— Robert Frost

61. “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

62. “All the fun is in how you say a thing.”

— Robert Frost

63. “The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.”

— Robert Frost

64. “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

65. “You’ve got to be brave and you’ve got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what’s right and what’s wrong, what’s good and what’s bad.”

— Robert Frost

66. “What we live by we die by.”

— Robert Frost

67. “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

69. “Create and stir other people to create.”

— Robert Frost

70. “They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars – on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.”

— Robert Frost

71. “You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.”

— Robert Frost

72. “So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.”

— Robert Frost

73. “Let me be the one To do what is done.”

— Robert Frost

74. “I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

76. “I turned to speak to God About the world’s despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn’t there.”

— Robert Frost

77. “Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

— Robert Frost

78. “Nature’s first green is gold.”

— Robert Frost

79. “There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.”

— Robert Frost

80. “The test is always how we treat the poor.”

— Robert Frost

81. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, and wants it down.”

— Robert Frost

82. “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.”

— Robert Frost

83. “I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.”

— Robert Frost

84. “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

85. “A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.”

— Robert Frost

86. “So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.”

— Robert Frost

87. “To be social is to be forgiving.”

— Robert Frost

88. “The only certain freedom’s in departure.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

90. “All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.”

— Robert Frost

91. “The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.”

— Robert Frost

92. “Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”

— Robert Frost

93. “I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.”

— Robert Frost

94. “Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.”

— Robert Frost

95. “More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.”

— Robert Frost

96. “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”

— Robert Frost

97. “A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor’s point of view.”

— Robert Frost

98. “Anything more than the truth would be too much.”

— Robert Frost

99. “Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don’t know why people shouldn’t write poetry. That’s brave.”

— Robert Frost

100. “I never take my own side in a quarrel.”

— Robert Frost