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Robert Frost Quotes

1874–1963 United States

Robert Lee Frost (26 March 1874 – 29 January 1963) was an American poet; winner of four Pulitzer Prizes.

United States
19th-century poets
Poets

Also known as: Frost, Robert

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170 quotes

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

The world has room to make a bear feel free;
The universe seems cramped to you and me.

West-Running Brook (1928)

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)

Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.

A Further Range (1936)

The 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.

New Hampshire (1923)

We disparage reason.
But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.
There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.
Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

A Masque of Reason (1945)

To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.

North of Boston (1914)

All those who try to go it sole alone,
Too proud to be beholden for relief,
Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Steeple Bush (1947)

Summoning artists to participate
In the august occasions of the state
Seems something artists ought to celebrate.

For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration (1960)

The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.

A Further Range (1936)

Dust always blowing about the town,
Except when sea-fog laid it down,
And I was one of the children told
Some of the blowing dust was gold.

West-Running Brook (1928)

Read it a hundred times: it will forever keep its freshness as a petal keeps its fragrance.

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)

Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ.

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)

The land was ours before we were the land's.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people.

A Witness Tree (1942)

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

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Mountain Interval (1916)

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any.
Join the United States and join the family —
But not much in between, unless a college.

A Further Range (1936)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Frost (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.