October 9 2022

32 Robert Frost Quotes to Make You Discover Daily Life in Verses

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Robert Frost (born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts) came to fame for his depictions of rural life in New England. His wide variety of themes and the form he used for his poems reveal a deep interest in simple folks and the intense emotional charges experienced by ordinary people in everyday situations. True to his interest in rural settings he combined traditional metrical form and unadorned verse that came straight from the natural rhythms and rhymes of everyday exchanges. This collection of the most inspiring Robert Frost quotes will help you experience everyday life though his verses.

Peculiar as it might seem, although his poetry was immersed in the settings of American rural life, Frost did not begin his career as a poet in the USA but in London, UK. Frost moved to London with his family in 1912 to seek a publishing house for his poems in the more receptive London scene. This extreme move was more than successful; soon he saw his first book, A Boy’s Will, published and attracting attention. After the publication of his second collection, North of Boston, his name started to pop up as a regular reference of a modern American poet, in London literary circles. Americans traveling in London started buying his books and talking about the work of an unknown American poet stimulating acclamation in London. When he returned in Boston in 1915 Frost had already gained a fast track to a belated fame.

Sometimes tragic and others an optimist Frost found his inspiration in everyday events. His overlook in life, as it pours out from his poetry, is a combination of stoicism, tenaciousness and tragic endurance. His poems often have the form of a monologue or a dialogue of simple folk ruminating or debating about a daily happening in a straightforward, colloquial voice. Frost connected the simple events he chose with a vast range of human experiences and divulged through his poetry deep human truths. His breadth and depth of work helped him overcome the New England poet label and acquire a national coverage.

Frost has received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry in his lifetime and is officially recognized as a poet whose poetry “has enriched the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world”. Whether his technical brilliance, his down-to-earth and close-to-heart choice of subjects or his command of colloquial speech Frost is lodged in the hearts of Americans as one of the few poets that made sense in the 20th century.

Famous Robert Frost Quotes on Life
Robert Frost’s Love Quotes Through a Poetic Lens

Robert Frost Quotes from His Most Beautiful Poems
Robert Frost’s Best Quotes about Poetry and Being a Poet
Funny Quotes by Robert Frost About the Hilarious Side of Rhymes
Robert Frost Quotes On Images

Famous Robert Frost Quotes on Life

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. 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
Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost
To be social is to be forgiving. Robert Frost

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. Robert Frost
The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. 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

If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane. Robert Frost
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Robert Frost

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. Robert Frost
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? Robert Frost
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That’s voting. Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost

How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail
Robert Frost
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost
I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school. Robert Frost
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. Robert Frost

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. Robert Frost
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone. Robert Frost
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I- I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. 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
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost
Good fences make good neighbors. Robert Frost
Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do. Robert Frost
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost
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
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost

Robert Frost’s Love Quotes Through a Poetic Lens

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
We love the things we love for what they are. Robert Frost

We ran as if to meet the moon. Robert Frost
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain.
Robert Frost
Come over the hills and far with me
And be my love in the rain.
Robert Frost
You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. Robert Frost
Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air
Robert Frost

Robert Frost Quotes from His Most Beautiful Poems

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, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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 it 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
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
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
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

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost
I dwell in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago.
Robert Frost

Robert Frost’s Best Quotes about Poetry and Being a Poet

You’re always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing. Robert Frost
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. Robert Frost
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. Robert Frost
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. Robert Frost
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost

Funny Quotes by Robert Frost About the Hilarious Side of Rhymes

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. Robert Frost
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost
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. Robert Frost
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. 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
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone. Robert Frost

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost