Top 350 Robert Frost Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The sidelong glance is what you depend on.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

153. “I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

155. “Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.”

— Robert Frost

156. “Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”

— Robert Frost

157. “The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.”

— Robert Frost

158. “The best thing we’re put here for’s to see; The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.”

— Robert Frost

159. “Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”

— Robert Frost

160. “Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”

— Robert Frost

161. “He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.”

— Robert Frost

162. “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.”

— Robert Frost

163. “If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.”

— Robert Frost

164. “The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.”

— Robert Frost

165. “I always entertain great hopes.”

— Robert Frost

166. “If you’re looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.”

— Robert Frost

167. “Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that’s what a poet is doing: loosening the words.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

169. “Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”

— Robert Frost

170. “Democracy is the best chance for the best people.”

— Robert Frost

171. “I am one who has been acquainted with the night.”

— Robert Frost

172. “Start with a big fat lump in your throat. Start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness, and run with it. If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love. And don’t stop until you get what you love.”

— Robert Frost

173. “A poem begins with a lump in the throat.”

— Robert Frost

174. “The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.”

— Robert Frost

175. “You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.”

— Robert Frost

176. “But I have promises to keep And miles to og before I sleep.”

— Robert Frost

177. “Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.”

— Robert Frost

178. “What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.”

— Robert Frost

179. “That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

182. “Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.”

— Robert Frost

183. “The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.”

— Robert Frost

184. “But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one’s going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.”

— Robert Frost

185. “A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”

— Robert Frost

186. “People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that’s us.”

— Robert Frost

187. “Poetry is play. I’d even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

189. “If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”

— Robert Frost

190. “I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”

— Robert Frost

191. “A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”

— Robert Frost

192. “Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.”

— Robert Frost

193. “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.”

— Robert Frost

194. “The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I’m not keeping pace With the headlong human race.”

— Robert Frost

195. “Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”

— Robert Frost

196. “The land was ours before we were the land’s. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.”

— Robert Frost

197. “I play better tennis because the court is there.”

— Robert Frost

198. “There is the fear that we shan’t prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won’t understand us and we shall be cut of from them.”

— Robert Frost

199. “Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?”

— Robert Frost

200. “Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.”

— Robert Frost