Top 100 Quotes About Robert Frost
#1. Robert Frost said, No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
Kim Addonizio
#2. Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.
--Johnny quoting Robert Frost
S.E. Hinton
#3. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".
Fred Rogers
#4. It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.
Donald Hall
#5. One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
Paul Muldoon
#6. Robert Frost liked to distinguish between grievances (complaints) and griefs (sorrows). He even suggested that grievances, which are propagandistic, should be restricted to prose, leaving poetry free to go its way in tears.
Edward Hirsch
#7. Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.
Bob Dylan
#8. If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." - Robert Frost
Penny Reid
#9. Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
Howard Nemerov
#10. I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little too much time on his hands.
Sharon Creech
#11. People who do "lowly" jobs with love and energy find themselves being promoted and offered other "better" jobs very quickly. Because they understand what Robert Frost meant when he said, "The way out is through.
Steve Chandler
#12. In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing. In April 1948, there were 15 readings in the United States, 12 by Robert Frost. So I claim. The figures are imaginary, but you get the point.
Donald Hall
#13. I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.
Bob Dylan
#14. Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Anne Stevenson
#15. And you read your emily dickinson,
And I my robert frost.
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what weve lost.
Paul Simon
#17. My home is a place of unconditional belonging, which is part of its pleasure, part of its pain - as Robert Frost wrote, home is Something you somehow haven't to deserve.
Gretchen Rubin
#18. Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn't give public readings very often, certainly not - there was no circuit of schools.
Billy Collins
#19. Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.
Jamie Wyeth
#20. He had always thought that a Native American should have shot Robert Frost for the outrageous lie of the line "The land was ours before we were the land's." What a scandal that would be, America's best-loved geezer falling in a battle over poetry.
Jim Harrison
#21. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - ROBERT FROST,
Timothy Ferriss
#22. Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly."
Robert Frost
Madelyn Hill
#23. Right,' said Don Allman. 'And I'm Robert Frost, stopping by the woods on a snowy fucking evening.
Stephen King
#24. Because of his unusual way of handling language, Cummings had to travel a long road from the time his early books were ridiculed for their eccentricity to the point at which, with Robert Frost, he was one of the two most popular poets in America.
E. E. Cummings
#25. Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
Mason Cooley
#26. I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost.
Steven R. McQueen
#27. The black stream, catching on a sunken rock, Flung backward on itself in one white wave, And the white water rode the black forever. - ROBERT FROST
Kevin Fedarko
#28. If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine,
shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.
James Dickey
#29. Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on West-Running Brook.
Joseph Brodsky
#30. Surely this sense of betrayal is what Robert Frost had in mind when he wrote: "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee/And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." io
Irvin D. Yalom
#31. I always entertain great hopes. - Robert Frost
Wayne W. Dyer
#32. I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.
Jay Parini
#33. The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.
Haven Kimmel
#34. When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Howard Nemerov
#35. Nothing Stay Forever"
"Nature's first green is gold,
"Her hardest hue to hold.
"Her early leaf's a flower;
"But only so an hour.
"Then leaf subsides to leaf.
"So Eden sank to grief,
"So dawn goes down today.
"Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
S.E. Hinton
#36. I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.
Bob Newhart
#37. A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.
Robert Frost
#38. I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day ...
Robert Frost
#39. There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
Robert Frost
#40. It was a black and white day of frost, which crawled along the dark trees and outlined twig and branch. The air was misty, and distant objects assumed a mysterious importance. Slight sounds, too, suggested infinite activities to the mind.
("A Tribute Of Souls")
Robert S. Hichens
#41. 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.
Robert Frost
#42. I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert Frost
#43. Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
Robert Frost
#44. One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
Robert Frost
#45. The truth is the river flows into the canyon
Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
Robert Frost
#46. So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
Robert Frost
#47. He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it.
Robert Frost
#48. Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
Robert Frost
#49. But what would interest you about the brook,
It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.
Robert Frost
#50. Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Robert Frost
#51. As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
Robert Frost
#52. I have remained resentful to this day
When any but myself presumed to say
That there was anything I couldn't be.
Robert Frost
#53. In fetid darkness still to live and run
And all for nothing it had ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water.
Robert Frost
#54. Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
Robert Frost
#55. Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
Robert Frost
#56. I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.
Robert Frost
#57. God once declared He was true
And then took the veil and withdrew ...
Robert Frost
#58. Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
Robert Frost
#59. Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
Robert Frost
#60. If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Robert Frost
#61. He never got up high enough to see.
That's why I don't advise your trying this side.
He tried this side. I've always meant to go
And look myself, but you know how it is:
It doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain
You've worked around the foot of all your life.
Robert Frost
#62. Weep for what little things could make them glad.
Robert Frost
#63. What are we?
Young or new?
We must be something.
Robert Frost
#64. A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
Robert Frost
#65. 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.
Robert Frost
#66. Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
Robert Frost
#67. 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.
Robert Frost
#68. Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
Robert Frost
#69. Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
#71. It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
Robert Frost
#72. Come over the hills and far with me
And be my love in the rain.
Robert Frost
#73. 'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?'
I don't suppose the water's changed at all.
You and I know enough to know it's warm
Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm.
But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
Robert Frost
#74. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
#75. If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
Robert Frost
#76. Our very life depends on everything's
Recurring till we answer from within.
The thousandth time may prove the charm.
Robert Frost
#77. It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage ...
Robert Frost
#78. Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
Robert Frost
#79. New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.
Robert Frost
#80. When clever people ask me where
I get a poem, I despair.
Robert Frost
#81. Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Robert Frost
#82. The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
Robert Frost
#83. Two roads diverged in a forest and I chose the one less traveled by and it made all the difference.
Robert Frost
#84. Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
And that they may be is the only prayer
Worth praying. May my sacrifice
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
Robert Frost
#85. There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
Robert Frost
#86. I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
Robert Frost
#87. I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Robert Frost
#88. I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Robert Frost
#89. Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost
#90. "If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
Robert Frost
#91. I play better tennis because the court is there.
Robert Frost
#92. I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
Robert Frost
#93. I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
Robert Frost
#94. 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.
Robert Frost
#95. And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Robert Frost
#96. Sudden and swift and light as that
The ties gave,
And he learned of finalities
Besides the grave.
Robert Frost
#97. I am one who has been acquainted with the night
Robert Frost
#98. The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.
Robert Frost
#99. Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Robert Frost
#100. Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow ...
Robert Frost
