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Quotes By Robert Frost

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Poet

Robert Frost

Mar 26, 1874 - Jan 29, 1963

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

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

Life is tons of discipline.

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

Good fences make good neighbors.

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

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

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

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

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

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

The test is always how we treat the poor.

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

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

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.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.