Quotes By Robert Frost

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.