Robert Frost Quotes
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

205. “Ants are a curious race.”

— Robert Frost

206. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

210. “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

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

— Robert Frost

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

221. “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

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

— Robert Frost

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Robert Frost

226. “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

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

— Robert Frost

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

231. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

234. “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

235. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

241. “I go to school the youth to learn the future.”

— Robert Frost

242. “Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.”

— Robert Frost

243. “Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn’t been.”

— Robert Frost

244. “The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.”

— Robert Frost

245. “I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.”

— Robert Frost

246. “Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.”

— Robert Frost

247. “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

248. “If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

250. “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