Top 350 Robert Frost Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”

— Robert Frost

202. “The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”

— Robert Frost

203. “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

204. “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

205. “It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”

— Robert Frost

206. “A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”

— Robert Frost

207. “Don’t be an agnostic. Be something.”

— Robert Frost

208. “I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.”

— Robert Frost

209. “Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment.”

— Robert Frost

210. “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

211. “The artist in me cries out for design.”

— Robert Frost

212. “Ants are a curious race.”

— Robert Frost

213. “I had A Lover’s Quarrel With The World.”

— Robert Frost

214. “I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn’t been.”

— Robert Frost

215. “I have been one acquainted with the night.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

217. “There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.”

— Robert Frost

218. “Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.”

— Robert Frost

219. “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

220. “Men work together, whether they work together or apart.”

— Robert Frost

221. “Unless I’m wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I’m-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.”

— Robert Frost

222. “Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

224. “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye;.”

— Robert Frost

225. “The footpath down to the well is healed.”

— Robert Frost

226. “No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.”

— Robert Frost

227. “I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.”

— Robert Frost

228. “Hell is a half-filled auditorium.”

— Robert Frost

229. “Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do.”

— Robert Frost

230. “Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.”

— Robert Frost

231. “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

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

— Robert Frost

233. “Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future’s sakes.”

— Robert Frost

234. “Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.”

— Robert Frost

235. “I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

— Robert Frost

236. “Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.”

— Robert Frost

237. “I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.”

— Robert Frost

238. “And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there’s religion; and then there’s science; and there’s-and then there’s friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.”

— Robert Frost

239. “All thought is a feat of association; having what’s in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn’t know you knew.”

— Robert Frost

240. “The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.”

— Robert Frost

241. “Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.”

— Robert Frost

242. “Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.”

— Robert Frost

243. “Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn’t so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.”

— Robert Frost

244. “The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.”

— Robert Frost

245. “Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.”

— Robert Frost

246. “I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart.”

— Robert Frost

247. “Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.”

— Robert Frost

248. “What you want, what you’re hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.”

— Robert Frost

249. “Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.”

— Robert Frost

250. “We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could.”

— Robert Frost