Top 350 Robert Frost Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “I go to school the youth to learn the future.”

— Robert Frost

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

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

— Robert Frost

256. “Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.”

— Robert Frost

257. “When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I’d waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I’d waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

260. “There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.”

— Robert Frost

261. “A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.”

— Robert Frost

262. “Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.”

— Robert Frost

263. “Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.”

— Robert Frost

264. “I am assured at any rate Man’s practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There’s always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.”

— Robert Frost

265. “I won’t have it, in poetry, that bulk counts. People say to me, ‘Now settle down and do a long work, since you have shown the public that you can produce beautiful short poetry.’ And their implication tells me that making two verses or a short poem does not satisfy their concept of what an accomplished poet should be able to do. Bulk they want, as evidence of a man’s power.”

— Robert Frost

266. “Di hutan, kulihat dua cabang jalan terbentang. Kuambil yang jarang dilalui orang. Dan itulah yang membuat segala perbedaan.”

— Robert Frost

267. “Nature is cruel; it’s man whose is sick of blood– and man doesn’t seem so very sick of it...”

— Robert Frost

268. “You, of course, are a rose – But were always a rose.”

— Robert Frost

269. “Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

— Robert Frost

270. “I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.”

— Robert Frost

271. “The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.”

— Robert Frost

272. “For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.”

— Robert Frost

273. “We’re either nothing or a God’s regret.”

— Robert Frost

274. “Nature is always hinting at us.”

— Robert Frost

275. “Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.”

— Robert Frost

276. “I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”

— Robert Frost

277. “He thought that I was after him for a feather – The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.”

— Robert Frost

278. “They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.”

— Robert Frost

279. “We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.”

— Robert Frost

280. “Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

— Robert Frost

281. “A man must partly give up being a man With women-folk.”

— Robert Frost

282. “But all We did that day was mingle great and small Footprints in summer dust as if we drew The figure of our being less than two But more than one as yet.”

— Robert Frost

283. “I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can’t recall, but it’s not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.”

— Robert Frost

284. “But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been – alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.”

— Robert Frost

285. “I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.”

— Robert Frost

286. “There are tones of voices that mean more than words.”

— Robert Frost

287. “Fortunately, we don’t need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.”

— Robert Frost

288. “The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.”

— Robert Frost

289. “End is a gloomy word.”

— Robert Frost

290. “You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.”

— Robert Frost

291. “A turning point in modern history.”

— Robert Frost

292. “What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?”

— Robert Frost

293. “I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.”

— Robert Frost

294. “One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.”

— Robert Frost

295. “The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

— Robert Frost

296. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall that sends the frozen ground swell under it.”

— Robert Frost

297. “The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. –.”

— Robert Frost

298. “Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.”

— Robert Frost

299. “Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.”

— Robert Frost

300. “My definition of literature would be just this: words that have become deeds.”

— Robert Frost