There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. Robert Frost Quotes
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. Robert Frost
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
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How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail. Robert Frost
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it that it was ourselves. Robert Frost
Robert Frost Quotes on Life, Love, and Poetry
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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
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all. Robert Frost
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. Robert Frost Quotes
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
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What we live by we die by. Robert Frost
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We love things we love for what they are. Robert Frost
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words. Robert Frost
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost
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Our very life depends on everything’s Recurring till we answer from within. The thousandth time may prove the charm. Robert Frost
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. Robert Frost
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone. Robert Frost
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost
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Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. Robert Frost
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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
More Great Thoughts from Robert Frost
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Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost
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Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. Robert Frost
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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? Robert Frost
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice. Robert Frost
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Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. Robert Frost
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost
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Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on. Robert Frost
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I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school. Robert Frost
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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover quarrel with the world. Robert Frost
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. Robert Frost
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism. Robert Frost
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. Robert Frost
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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
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost
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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
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I always entertain great hopes. Robert Frost
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost
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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
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I’m not confused, I’m just well-mixed. Robert Frost
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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
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true. Robert Frost
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We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Robert Frost Quotes
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of day I am going to have. Robert Frost
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country. Robert Frost
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We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn’t overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure. Robert Frost
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If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane. Robert Frost
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Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. Robert Frost
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Yes, and even for the past…that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be. Robert Frost
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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost
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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
Robert Lee Frost: Born March26, 1874 in San Fransisco California. Did January29, 1963 in Boston Massachusetts.
Frost was an American poet. who was known for his realistic depictions of rural life. He wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, and used those settings to provide his views on social and philosophical themes.
His family moved to Lawrence Massachusetts in 1885 upon the death of his father. He attended Lawrence High School where his first poem was published, in the high school magazine. His first sale of a poem (for $15) was published in the New York independent on November 8, 1894
He attended Harvard University from 1897 to 1899. He left school due to an illness. Frost never received a college degree, but did receive over 40 honorary degrees from colleges and universities that included Cambridge, Dartmouch, Oxford, and Princeton.
His works were influenced by Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, John Keats, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harriet Monroe (the founding publisher and editor of Poetry) described his work by saying that “perhaps no other poet in our history has put the best of the Yankee spirit into a book so completely.”
Ezra Pound said of his work: has the tang of the New Hampshire woods, and it has just this utter sincerity. It is not post-Miltonic or post-Swinburnian or post Kiplonian. This man has the good sense to speak naturally and to paint the thing, the thing as he sees it.”
He received several honors during his lifetme. and is credited as the only person to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. Those awards came in 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes, 1931, 1937 for a Further Range, and in 1943 for A Witness Tree.
The US Senate passed a resolution stating, “His (Robert Frost’s) poems have helped to guide American thought and humor and wisdom, setting forth to our minds a reliable representation of ourselves and of all men.”
In 1960, Frost was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his work in the field of poetry. On July 22, 1961 Frost was named the first poet laureate of Vermont and was unofficially considered by many to be the poet laureate of the U.S. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature 31 times. He won the Bollingen Prize in 1962.
Robert Frost was one of President John F. Kennedy’s favorite poets. Kennedy invited him to read his poem The Gift Outright his inauguration in 1961. Frost’s legacy includes having an influence on Robert Francis, Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur, Edward Thomas, and James Wright.
