Quotes by Robert Frost

“More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.”

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

“There should be more or less of a jumble in your head or on your note paper after the first time and even after the second. Much that you will think of in connection will come to nothing and be was...”

“I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also great”

“Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what Ive tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that...”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”

“Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.”

“Part of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poured softly in her lap. She sawAnd spread her apron to it. She put out her handAmong the harp-like m...”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”

“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.”

“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”