Quotes by Robert Frost

“No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.”

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

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

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

“I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right plac...”

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

“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 shoul...”

“Fireflies in the GardenBy Robert Frost 1874–1963 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 nev...”

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

“They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places.”

“He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.”

“Lovers, forget your love,And list the love of these,She a window flower,And he a winter breeze.”

“The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in self-development. I think a person has to be withdrawn int...”

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

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

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

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.”

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

“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.”