Robert Frost Quotes

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

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

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

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

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

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

The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?

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.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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.

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

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.

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