Quotes By Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

What we live by we die by.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The only way round is through.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

I always entertain great hopes.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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