Robert Frost Quotes

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

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

Great, Forgive, Big

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

Mother, Father, Son

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

Father's Day, Love, Mother

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.
Robert Frost

Short, Story, Quarrel

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

Work, Rest, Full

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost

Beautiful, Rain, Dark

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

Hell, Anybody, Hold

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

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

Happiness, Makes, Height

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

Society, Point, Sanity

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

Great, Heart, Truly

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

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

End, Writing, Started

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

Women, Men, Lonely

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

Education, Life, Change

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

Lawyer, Decide, Chosen

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

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Quarrel, Lovers

What we live by we die by.
Robert Frost

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

Education, Around, Until

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost

Society, Life, Change

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

Work, Why, Reason

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 26, 1874

Died: January 29, 1963

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