Quotes By Robert Frost

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

Lord, I have loved Your sky,Be it said against or for me,Have loved it clear and high,Or low and stormy.

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

The tree the tempest with a crash of woodThrows down in front of us is not to barOur passage to our journey's end for good,But just to ask us who we think we are.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

And of course there must be something wrongIn wanting to silence any song.

Don't be agnostic - be something.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Create and stir other people to create.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.