Robert Frost Quotes

I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost

Great, Hopes, Entertain

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Sports, Down, Play

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

Design, Artist, Cries

The only way round is through.
Robert Frost

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

Lawyer, Decide, Chosen

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 never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost

Fear, Young, Old

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

Life, Poetry, Taking

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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

Understand, Talk, Learn

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

Him, Hands, Among

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost

Freedom, Society, Enough

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost

Power, History, Away

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Robert Frost

Great, Someone, Country

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

Money, Business, Poor

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost

Politics, Poetry, Grief

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost

True, Writer, Reader

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

Life, Great, Wisdom

The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost

Freedom, Departure

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost

Freedom, Easy, Harness

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Quarrel, Written, Lover

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost

End, Hard, Memory

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
Robert Frost

House, Fill, Aged

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Robert Frost

Service, Means, Shape

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost

Sick, Space, Moderns

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 26, 1874

Died: January 29, 1963

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