Top 350 Robert Frost Quotes (2024 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. “The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.”

— Robert Frost

255. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

258. “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

259. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Robert Frost

266. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

272. “Nature is always hinting at us.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

275. “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

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

— Robert Frost

277. “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

278. “Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

281. “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

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

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

— Robert Frost

286. “End is a gloomy word.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

291. “A turning point in modern history.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

296. “I’ve given offense by saying I’d as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

298. “At bottom the world isn’t a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he’s there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.”

— Robert Frost

299. “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

300. “Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt – above paying its respects to anybody’s doubt whatsoever.”

— Robert Frost