quotes by Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"The Road Not Taken


TWO 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;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. "
— Robert Frost

"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

"These 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

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
— Robert Frost

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
— Robert Frost

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
— Robert Frost

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

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

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
— Robert Frost

"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 I had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
— Robert Frost (Robert Frost's Poems)

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
— Robert Frost

"The best way out is always through."
— 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 am not a teacher, but an awakener. "
— Robert Frost

"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."
— Robert Frost

"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
— Robert Frost