Four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
American poet known for his realistic depictions of rural life.
Poet | American
Born: March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died: January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost
The best way out is always through.
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
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert Frost
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost
I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
Robert Frost
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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 alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
Robert Frost
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost