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

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

— Robert Frost

The only way around is through.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

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

What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?

— Robert Frost

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

— Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down

— 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

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.

— Robert Frost

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

— Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

— Robert Frost

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

— Robert Frost

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

— Robert Frost

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

— 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

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

— Robert Frost

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

— Robert Frost

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

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.

— Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

— Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

— Robert Frost

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

— Robert Frost

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

— Robert Frost

Good fences make good neighbors.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

— Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

— Robert Frost

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— 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

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

— Robert Frost

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

— Robert Frost

To be social is to be forgiving.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

— Robert Frost

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

— Robert Frost

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

— Robert Frost

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

— Robert Frost

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.

— Robert Frost

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

— 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 to the office.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

The land was ours before we were the lands. She was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people. She was oursIn Massachusetts, in Virginia,But we were Englands, still colonials,Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Something we were withholding made us weakUntil we found out that it was ourselvesWe were withholding from our land of living,And forthwith found salvation in surrender. Such as we were we gave ourselves outrightTo the land vaguely realizing westward,But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,Such as she was, such as she would become.

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Frost

I am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

— Robert Frost