The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROSTFar more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
More Robert Frost Quotes
-
-
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
ROBERT FROST -
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
ROBERT FROST -
We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
ROBERT FROST -
The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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 -
For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
ROBERT FROST -
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST -
Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
ROBERT FROST -
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
ROBERT FROST -
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST -
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
ROBERT FROST -
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father s. He’s more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST -
The best way out is always through.
ROBERT FROST -
If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
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