Top 350 Robert Frost Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don’t know why people shouldn’t write poetry. That’s brave.”

— Robert Frost

102. “Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.”

— Robert Frost

103. “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”

— Robert Frost

104. “It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”

— Robert Frost

105. “I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”

— Robert Frost

106. “Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That’s voting.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

109. “Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

— Robert Frost

110. “I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.”

— Robert Frost

111. “You’ve often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.”

— Robert Frost

112. “All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.”

— Robert Frost

113. “I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

115. “The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory 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.”

— Robert Frost

116. “As that I can see no way out but through –.”

— Robert Frost

117. “It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.”

— Robert Frost

118. “How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

120. “Don’t join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.”

— Robert Frost

121. “Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other’s business.”

— Robert Frost

122. “An idea is a feat of association.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

124. “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

— Robert Frost

125. “If you remember only one thing I’ve said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don’t know what it’s all about.”

— Robert Frost

126. “Any work of art must first of all tell a story.”

— Robert Frost

127. “We ran as if to meet the moon.”

— Robert Frost

128. “You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”

— Robert Frost

129. “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.”

— Robert Frost

130. “The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.”

— Robert Frost

131. “The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.”

— Robert Frost

132. “I write to find out what I didn’t know I knew.”

— Robert Frost

133. “I’m always saying something that’s just the edge of something more.”

— Robert Frost

134. “It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...”

— Robert Frost

135. “A good book has no ending.”

— Robert Frost

136. “College is a refuge from hasty judgment.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

138. “The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.”

— Robert Frost

139. “All great things are done for their own sake.”

— Robert Frost

140. “Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?”

— Robert Frost

141. “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.”

— Robert Frost

142. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both...”

— Robert Frost

143. “Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”

— Robert Frost

144. “You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”

— Robert Frost

145. “The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.”

— Robert Frost

146. “Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.”

— Robert Frost

147. “The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.”

— Robert Frost

148. “A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look.”

— Robert Frost

149. “The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.”

— Robert Frost

150. “Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”

— Robert Frost