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Robert Frost is the most significant American poet. His poems often use images from nature, and his work has been widely translated. He is a well-known poet who has been writing for over a century.
He was born in San Francisco on March 26th, 1874, to parents who were both educators; his father taught school while his mother was a teacher at a boarding school for girls. Before becoming a poet and author, he was a Vermont farmer. He wrote poems mainly about life in New England during the 1800s.
Frost wrote poems about nature, life, and love–especially the love between people. He became known for his poetry that was full of symbolism and imagery rather than actual meaning. Frost is also known for his work as a teacher at Harvard University, where he served as the head of creative writing from 1879 to 1909.
He wrote for over a century, during which time he published more than 2200 poems, four collections of short stories, five novels, and six essay collections. His inspirational quotes on life and human nature are inspiring and will change your thoughts today. Bring more joy into your day.
63 Inspiring Robert Frost Quotes
“How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail”
“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.”
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“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.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.”
“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”
“You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.”
“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”
“I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.”
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”
“Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.”
“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
“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.”
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”
“Never cut what you can untie.”
“All the fun’s in how you say a thing“
“The best way out is always through.”
“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”
“I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.”
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
“Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.”
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.”
“Our very life depends on everythings’ recurring til we answer from within.”
“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.”
“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
“You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”
“Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.”
“Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.”
“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
“Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”
“Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you’re going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.”
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
“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.”
“Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.”
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.”
“If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.”
“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.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
“Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.”
“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”
“There is the fear that we shan’t prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won’t understand us and we shall be cut of from them.”
