Quotes By Robert Frost

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Ends and beginnings there are no such things. There are only middles.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.