Top 350 Robert Frost Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 4 of 8

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

153. “Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.”

— Robert Frost

154. “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

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

— Robert Frost

156. “The sidelong glance is what you depend on.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

158. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

162. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

167. “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

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

— Robert Frost

169. “I always entertain great hopes.”

— Robert Frost

170. “If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

Featured in: Book Quotes

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

177. “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

178. “Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It’s like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

181. “We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

Featured in: Country Quotes

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

— Robert Frost

184. “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.”

— Robert Frost

185. “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

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

— Robert Frost

187. “Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.”

— Robert Frost

188. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

191. “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

Featured in: Summer Quotes

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

— Robert Frost

193. “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.”

— Robert Frost

194. “What but design of darkness to appall?- If design govern in a thing so small.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

198. “Nature is always hinting at us.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost