A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins...
ROBERT FROST Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ROBERT FROST Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
ROBERT FROST You can't get too much winter in the winter.
ROBERT FROST There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
ROBERT FROST Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remembe...
ROBERT FROST Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once yo...
ROBERT FROST A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.
ROBERT FROST Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden ...
ROBERT FROST We ran as if to meet the moon.
ROBERT FROST The land was ours before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Bef...
ROBERT FROST It's God--I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere.
ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a kint ...
ROBERT FROST I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I...
ROBERT FROST Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But...
ROBERT FROST Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who hav...
ROBERT FROST I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
ROBERT FROST I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
ROBERT FROST In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made a...
ROBERT FROST I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who wa...
ROBERT FROST Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
ROBERT FROST No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader...
ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
ROBERT FROST We love the things we love for what they are.
ROBERT FROST The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel...
ROBERT FROST There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move,...
ROBERT FROST Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of thi...
ROBERT FROST Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
ROBERT FROST Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
ROBERT FROST Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ...
ROBERT FROST You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particula...
ROBERT FROST It's rest I want--there, I have said it out--
From cooking meals for hungry hired men
And wash...
ROBERT FROST A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
ROBERT FROST I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
ROBERT FROST The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up...
ROBERT FROST Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
ROBERT FROST A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds th...
ROBERT FROST I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out to...
ROBERT FROST An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
ROBERT FROST The only way around is through.
ROBERT FROST Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book si...
ROBERT FROST Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
ROBERT FROST I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a woo...
ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hin...
ROBERT FROST No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
ROBERT FROST And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
ROBERT FROST Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
ROBERT FROST Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
ROBERT FROST There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well a...
ROBERT FROST Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was ...
ROBERT FROST My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can ...
ROBERT FROST Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On...
ROBERT FROST They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I hav...
ROBERT FROST The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
ROBERT FROST One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house.
ROBERT FROST And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me...
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society be...
ROBERT FROST Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
ROBERT FROST Good fences make good neighbors.
ROBERT FROST A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
ROBERT FROST You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
ROBERT FROST There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
ROBERT FROST Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
ROBERT FROST Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
ROBERT FROST A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
ROBERT FROST The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we we...
ROBERT FROST Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
ROBERT FROST I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
ROBERT FROST The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sle...
ROBERT FROST What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
ROBERT FROST Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My a...
ROBERT FROST Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield...
ROBERT FROST No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
ROBERT FROST I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
ROBERT FROST Writing a poem is discovering
ROBERT FROST The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are real...
ROBERT FROST There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen
ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows
ROBERT FROST Nothing Gold Can Stay
ROBERT FROST Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
ROBERT FROST Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.
ROBERT FROST I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed
ROBERT FROST College is the best time of your life
ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a...
ROBERT FROST Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
ROBERT FROST The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for t...
ROBERT FROST I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
ROBERT FROST The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
ROBERT FROST To be social is to be forgiving.
ROBERT FROST Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yiel...
ROBERT FROST Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once ...
ROBERT FROST The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholi...
ROBERT FROST A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
ROBERT FROST The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not vio...
ROBERT FROST The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
ROBERT FROST There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't m...
ROBERT FROST It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and ...
ROBERT FROST Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not ...
ROBERT FROST Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
ROBERT FROST A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
ROBERT FROST In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
ROBERT FROST A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
ROBERT FROST Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who...
ROBERT FROST One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
ROBERT FROST If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
ROBERT FROST Freedom lies in being bold.
ROBERT FROST Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
ROBERT FROST The best way out is always through.
ROBERT FROST We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
ROBERT FROST The only way round is through.
ROBERT FROST Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confid...
ROBERT FROST It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better ...
ROBERT FROST Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjec...
ROBERT FROST My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days ...
ROBERT FROST Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come...
ROBERT FROST Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve t...
ROBERT FROST Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost 1874–1963

Here come real stars to fill th...
ROBERT FROST God made a beauteous garden
With lovely flowers strown,
But one straight, narrow pathway<...
ROBERT FROST I never take my own side in a quarrel.
ROBERT FROST Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definitio...
ROBERT FROST A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twent...
ROBERT FROST How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
ROBERT FROST An idea is a feat of association.
ROBERT FROST A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
ROBERT FROST As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
ROBERT FROST Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?
ROBERT FROST In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the di...
ROBERT FROST These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before...
ROBERT FROST Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will tur...
ROBERT FROST Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
ROBERT FROST Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
ROBERT FROST Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stoppin...
ROBERT FROST The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I ...
ROBERT FROST