173 "Robert Frost" Quotes And Sayings

Robert Lee Frost was born into a prestigious New England family and attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University. His first book, "Poems", appeared in 1915. He published "A Boy's Will", his first collection of poems, in 1916, and "The Road Not Taken", a description of a walk he had taken as a young man, in 1921. In 1927, he published "Birches" Read more

He wrote only one more collection of poems, "The Mountain Interval". Robert Frost has been called the greatest poet America has ever produced.

We love the things we love for what they are.
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We love the things we love for what they are. Robert Frost
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being...
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. Robert Frost
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. Robert Frost
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever...
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season? Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned...
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have...
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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
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have...
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. 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
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why...
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill...
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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
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the...
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive...
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. Robert Frost
For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it...
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true Robert Frost
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They would not find me changed from him they knew – Only more sure of all I thought was true. Robert Frost
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God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden Robert Frost
Home is the place where, when you have to go...
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in...
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost