Robert Frost quotes speak to the heart in a remarkably familiar way. The American poet is known for his command of the English language and realistic depictions of rural life. Frost frequently wrote about rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, comparing the scenes to complex social and philosophical themes.
Below are some favorite Robert Frost quotes.
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― 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
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost
“If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.”
― Robert Frost
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost
“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― 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
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
― Robert Frost
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
― Robert Frost
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
― 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
“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”
― Robert Frost
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
― Robert Frost
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
― Robert Frost
“How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
― Robert Frost
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
― Robert Frost
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.”
― Robert Frost
“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”
― Robert Frost
“What we live by we die by.”
― Robert Frost
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
― Robert Frost
“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”
― Robert Frost
“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”
― Robert Frost
“Our very life depends on everything’ recurring till we answer from within.”
― Robert Frost
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
― Robert Frost
“I’d like to get away from earth awhile and then come back to it and begin over.”
― Robert Frost
“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
― Robert Frost
Robert Frost Documentary – 1963
Robert Frost Books:
A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost (Leather-bound Classics)
Selected Poems of Robert Frost: Illustrated Edition
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged