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Robert Frost Quotes - Page 2

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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

Best Is Yet To Come, Grows

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Beauty, Insecurity, Enmity

Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.350, Harvard University Press

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Love, Inspirational, Life

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.

Funny, Life, Motivational

The test is always how we treat the poor.

Tests, Poor, Treats

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.

Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

Robert Frost (2010). “The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems”, p.23, Coyote Canyon Press

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

Tattoo, Running, Taken

"Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Love, Inspirational, Life

"MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Mean, Voice, Tone

Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Nature, Hiking, Hints

"Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Expression, Effort, Emotion

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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.

Art, Believe, Writing

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Safe, World, Metaphor

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Rights, Political, Icy

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Kindness, Heart, Compassion

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 578, 1895.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Law, Done, Violence

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Lost, Interpretation, Poetry Is

Quoted in Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost: A Backward Look (1964)

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Men, Political, Tolerance

"The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Art, Horse, Business

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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.

Rain, Flower, Garden

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Blessing, Cash, Happy Thoughts

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

Education, Teacher

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