Quotes By Robert Frost

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The best way out is always through.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Freedom lies in being bold.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

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

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

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

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.