Quotes By Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

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

The only way round is through.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.