Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Frost’s work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime and is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America’s rare “public literary figures, almost an artistic institution.” He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont. I hope you like these Robert Frost quotes on nature, life, education, death and about home.
Famous Robert Frost Quotes
- “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, Robert Frost quotes on education
- “If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” – Robert Frost
- “Freedom lies in being bold.” – 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
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
- “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” – Robert Frost
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“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
- “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – 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, Robert Frost quotes on nature
- “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
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost, Robert Frost quotes on life
- “Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.” – Robert Frost
- “I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.” – Robert Frost
- “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” – Robert Frost
- “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” – 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
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“Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.” – Robert Frost
- “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – 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
- “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
- “The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” – 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 believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.” – Robert Frost
- “Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.” – 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 person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.” – Robert Frost
- “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.” – Robert Frost
- “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.” – Robert Frost, Robert Frost quotes on home
- “Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do.” – Robert Frost
- “Anything more than the truth would be too much.” – Robert Frost
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“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
- “Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.” – Robert Frost
- “Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.” – Robert Frost
- “Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.” – Robert Frost
- “Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.” – Robert Frost
- “Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.” – Robert Frost
- “A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.” – Robert Frost
- “The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.” – Robert Frost
- “For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.” – Robert Frost
- “What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.” – Robert Frost
- “Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.” – 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 everythings’ recurring til we answer from within.” – Robert Frost
- “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
- “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” – Robert Frost
