Greatest Quotes from Robert Frost that are Worth Listening To!

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

“A poem, begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“Love, is an irresistible desire, to be irresistibly desired.”

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

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,

And I'll forgive They great big one on me.”

“If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.”

“Freedom, lies in being bold.”

“The best way out, is always through.”

“Poetry, is what gets lost in translation.”

“Half the world, is composed of people, who have something to say and can't, and the other half, who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”

“Happiness, makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

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

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

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

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

“ remembers her age.”

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

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”

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

“The afternoon, knows what the morning, never suspected.”

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


“How many things have to happen to you, before something occurs to you?”


“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife, who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

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


“How many things, would you attempt.If you knew you could not fail”

“We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”


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


“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”


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


“The world, is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”


“Thinking, is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.”


“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.”


“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.”


“Before I built a wall, I'd ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.”


“The middle of the road, is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”


“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”


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


“Oh, come forth into the storm, and rout And be my love in the rain.”


“By faithfully working eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”


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