Quotes by Robert Frost

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”

“For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true”

“They would not find me changed from him they knew Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

“Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent. ”

“God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown,But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown.And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live,And said "To you, my children,...”

“Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;...”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

“The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; ...”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destr...”

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

“The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.”

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

“The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued.”

“INTO MY OWNOne of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should...”

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

“I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been.”

“Fireflies in the GardenBy Robert Frost 18741963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were neve...”