80+ Famous Robert Frost Quotes on Love, Life, Education and Poetry

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Robert Frost (full name : Robert Lee Frost) was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1963 to journalist William Prescott Frost Jr and Isabelle Moodie Frost. Robert’s father untimely death from tuberculosis made his mother Isabelle to take her two children, Robert and his sister Jeanie to Lawrence, Massachusetts to their paternal grandparents. Robert graduated from high school in 1892. He fell in love with his high school mate Elinor White. Both Robert and Elinor had deep interest in poetry. His first professional publication achievement was when The Independent, a weekly journal printed his poem ‘My Butterfly: An Elegy”. He married Elinor in 1895, but the financial conditions weren’t so good. So, Robert supported life by teaching school and farming. He became one of America’s rare “public literary figures, almost an artistic institution”. Robert was was awarded with the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. Frost left this world on January 29, 1963 in the age of 88 at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Here is a collection of the most famous quotes by Robert Frost about love, life, education and poetry.

Robert Frost Quotes

  • 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 
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  • Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. -Robert Frost 
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  • I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn’t been. -Robert Frost 
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  • Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. -Robert Frost 
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  • My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. -Robert Frost 
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  • If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane. -Robert Frost 
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  • Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me. -Robert Frost 
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  • Freedom lies in being bold. -Robert Frost 
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  • The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost 
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  • Poetry is what gets lost in translation. -Robert Frost 
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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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  • We love the things we love for what they are. -Robert Frost 
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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 
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  • 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 
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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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  • I am not a teacher, but an awakener. -Robert Frost 
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  • Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. -Robert Frost 
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  • Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. -Robert Frost 
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  • 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 
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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’m not confused. I’m just well mixed. -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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  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost 
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robert frost quotes on poetry

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

-Robert Frost 
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  • I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. -Robert Frost 
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  • So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be. -Robert Frost 
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  • Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. -Robert Frost 
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  • For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired. -Robert Frost 
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  • Hope is not found in a way out but a way through. -Robert Frost 
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  • It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage… -Robert Frost 
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  • You, of course, are a rose– But were always a rose. -Robert Frost 
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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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  • Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. -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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  • The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. -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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  • 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 
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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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  • We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. -Robert Frost 
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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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  • 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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  • Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -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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  • Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost 
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  • We ran as if to meet the moon. -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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  • Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That’s voting. -Robert Frost 
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  • The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive. -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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  • Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. -Robert Frost 
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robert frost quotes on education

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

-Robert Frost 
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  • Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain. -Robert Frost 
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  • By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. -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 liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -Robert Frost 
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  • Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do. -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
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  • A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. -Robert Frost 
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  • Good fences make good neighbors. -Robert Frost 
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  • Come over the hills and far with me And be my love in the rain. -Robert Frost 
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  • Anything more than the truth would be too much. -Robert Frost 
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  • You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. -Robert Frost 
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  • A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -Robert Frost
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  • Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. -Robert Frost 
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  • Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. -Robert Frost 
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  • I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago. -Robert Frost 
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  • I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart-Robert Frost 
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  • Our very life depends on everythings’ recurring til we answer from within. -Robert Frost 
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  • So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. -Robert Frost 
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  • Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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  • I turned to speak to God About the world’s despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn’t there. -Robert Frost 
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  • A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. -Robert Frost 
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  • What we live by we die by. -Robert Frost 
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  • The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
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  • A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair. -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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  • For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true-Robert Frost 
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robert frost quotes love

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

-Robert Frost 
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  • Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent. -Robert Frost 
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  • Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. -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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  • 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 was ourselves. -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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  • The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. -Robert Frost 
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