Robert Frost Quotes

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

Quarrel, Liberal, Side

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

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

Thinking, Voting, Agreeing

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost

Mother, Father, Son

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

Teacher, Two, Move

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

Great, Forgive, Big

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost

Father's Day, Love, Mother

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

Work, Rest, Full

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

Live, Long, Social

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

Life, Whatever, Accept

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

Happiness, Makes, Height

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost

Wedding, Funny, Worry

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Robert Frost

Hell, Anybody, Hold

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost

Society, Point, Sanity

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Robert Frost

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost

Great, Heart, Truly

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

Education, Life, Change

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

Power, Control, Violence

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost

End, Writing, Started

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

Writer, Surprise, Tears

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

Women, Men, Lonely

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

Best, Society, Against

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

Love, Takes, Affair

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

Lawyer, Decide, Chosen

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost

Education, Around, Until

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 26, 1874

Died: January 29, 1963

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