Quotes By Robert Frost

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

What we live by we die by.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.