Robert Frost Quotes about Life
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”
"A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
"MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
In the Clearing (1962) "Cluster of Faith"
Vogue, March 14, 1963.
Title of poem (1942)
An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
"The Notebooks of Robert Frost".
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”
Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.41, Courier Corporation
Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18