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Robert Frost Quotes | Quotes said by Robert Frost

  • Robert Frost Quote #1

    Acquainted with the Night

    I have been one acquainted with the night.
    I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
    I have outwalked the furthest city light.

    I have looked down the saddest city lane.
    I have passed by the watchman on his beat
    And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

    I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
    When far away an interrupted cry
    Came over houses from another street,

    But not to call me back or say good-bye;
    And further still at an unearthly height,
    One luminary clock against the sky

    Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
    I have been one acquainted with the night.

  • Robert Frost Quote #2

    Happiness Makes Up in Height For What It Lacks in Length

    Oh, stormy stormy world,
    The days you were not swirled
    Around with mist and cloud,
    Or wrapped as in a shroud,
    And the sun’s brilliant ball
    Was not in part or all
    Obscured from mortal view—
    Were days so very few
    I can but wonder whence
    I get the lasting sense
    Of so much warmth and light.
    If my mistrust is right
    It may be altogether
    From one day’s perfect weather,
    When starting clear at dawn,
    The day swept clearly on
    To finish clear at eve.
    I verily believe
    My fair impression may
    Be all from that one day
    No shadow crossed but ours
    As through its blazing flowers
    We went from house to wood
    For change of solitude.

  • Robert Frost Quote #3

    Lodged

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #4

    Reluctance

    Out through the fields and the woods
    And over the walls I have wended;
    I have climbed the hills of view
    And looked at the world, and descended;
    I have come by the highway home,
    And lo, it is ended.

    The leaves are all dead on the ground,
    Save those that the oak is keeping
    To ravel them one by one
    And let them go scraping and creeping
    Out over the crusted snow,
    When others are sleeping.

    And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
    No longer blown hither and thither;
    The last lone aster is gone;
    The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
    The heart is still aching to seek,
    But the feet question 'Whither?'

    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 the end
    Of a love or a season?

  • Robert Frost Quote #5

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Whose woods these are I think I know.
    His house is in the village, though;
    He will not see me stopping here
    To watch his woods fill up with snow.

    My little horse must think it queer
    To stop without a farmhouse near
    Between the woods and frozen lake
    The darkest evening of the year.

    He gives his harness bells a shake
    To ask if there is some mistake.
    The only other sound's the sweep
    Of easy wind and downy flake.

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #6

    Tree At My Window

    Tree at my window, window tree,
    My sash is lowered when night comes on;
    But let there never be curtain drawn
    Between you and me.

    Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground,
    And thing next most diffuse to cloud,
    Not all your light tongues talking aloud
    Could be profound.

    But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
    And if you have seen me when I slept,
    You have seen me when I was taken and swept
    And all but lost.

    That day she put our heads together,
    Fate had her imagination about her,
    Your head so much concerned with outer,
    Mine with inner, weather.

  • Robert Frost Quote #7

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #8

    A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  • Robert Frost Quote #9

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #10

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #11

    A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  • Robert Frost Quote #12

    A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  • Robert Frost Quote #13

    A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

  • Robert Frost Quote #14

    A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  • Robert Frost Quote #15

    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 the end
    Of a love or a season?

  • Robert Frost Quote #16

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #17

    And lonely as it is that loneliness
    Will be more lonely ere it will be less--
    A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
    With no expression, nothing to express.

    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 Quote #18

    And on the worn book of old-golden
    I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold
    And freshen in this air of withering sweetness;

  • Robert Frost Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

  • Robert Frost Quote #21

    But bid life seize the present?
    It lives less in the present
    Than in the future always,
    And less in both together
    Than in the past.
    The present
    Is too much for the senses,
    Too crowding, too confusing—
    Too present to imagine.

  • Robert Frost Quote #22

    But yield who will to their separation,
    My object in living is to unite
    My avocation and my vocation
    As my two eyes make one in sight.

  • Robert Frost Quote #23

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #24

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #25

    Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

  • Robert Frost Quote #26

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #27

    Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

  • Robert Frost Quote #28

    Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  • Robert Frost Quote #29

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

  • Robert Frost Quote #30

    Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

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