96+ Best Robert Frost Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Profoundly inspirational Robert Frost quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.

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Famous Robert Frost Quotes

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life it goes on. Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. Robert Frost

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

If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane. Robert Frost

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for. Robert Frost

Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost

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

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood and I I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

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. Robert Frost

The best way out is always through. Robert Frost

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through. Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Robert Frost

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 to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost

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

The rain to the wind said, You push and I’ll pelt. They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged though not dead. I know how the flowers felt. Robert Frost

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right. Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life it goes on. Robert Frost

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost

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

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that from this moment forth you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before. Robert Frost

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed. Robert Frost

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost

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

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost

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

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. Robert Frost

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. Robert Frost

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole! Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? Robert Frost

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

Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost

You’re always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing. Robert Frost

How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail. Robert Frost

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi. Robert Frost

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

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law. Robert Frost

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

The test is always how we treat the poor. Robert Frost

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school. Robert Frost

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. Robert Frost

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

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body the wishbone. Robert Frost

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

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. Robert Frost

There are tones of voices that mean more than words. Robert Frost

Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do. Robert Frost

The rain to the wind said, You push and I’ll pelt.’They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged though not dead. I know how the flowers felt. Robert Frost

Anything more than the truth would be too much. Robert Frost

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. Robert Frost

Come over the hills and far with me and be my love in the rain. Robert Frost

I’m not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost

You’ve got to love what’s lovable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. Robert Frost

Good fences make good neighbors. Robert Frost

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. Robert Frost

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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost

All the fun is in how you say a thing. Robert Frost

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. Robert Frost

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against with. Robert Frost

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through. Robert Frost

The middle of the road is where the white line is and that’s the worst place to drive. Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

A poet never takes notes you never take notes in a Love Affair. Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me. Robert Frost

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

You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. Robert Frost

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true. Robert Frost

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow. Robert Frost

What is done is done for the love of it or not really done at all. Robert Frost

Courage is the human virtue that counts most courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have. Robert Frost

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent. Robert Frost

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike. Robert Frost

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. Robert Frost

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. Robert Frost

Our very life depends on everythings recurring til we answer from within. Robert Frost

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all. Robert Frost

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. Robert Frost

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting. Robert Frost

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

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