Robert Frost Quotes

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost

Dance, Secret, Knows

To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

Forgiveness, Social, Forgiving

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Writing, Down, Free

I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert Frost

Future, School, Learn

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

Forward, Mind, Saying

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert Frost

Nothing, Injustice, Mercy

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

Work, Poet, Condition

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost

College, Judgment, Refuge

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

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost

Baseball, Tough, Both

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

Place, Road, Worst

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost

Life, School, Book

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost

Remember, Nobody, Meant

You can't get too much winter in the winter.
Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost

Legal, Successful, Policeman

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert Frost

True, Him, Thought

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Writing, Off, Talking

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost

Humor, Cowardice, Engaging

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost

Life, Art, Care

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

Work, Worst, Disease

I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost

Great, Hopes, Entertain

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

Design, Artist, Cries

The only way round is through.
Robert Frost

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost

Music, Alone, May

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 26, 1874

Died: January 29, 1963

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