Quotes By Robert Frost

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

A bird half wakened in the lunar noonSang halfway through its little inborn tune.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

The nearest friends can goWith anyone to death, comes so far shortThey might as well not try to go at all.

The sweet of bitter barkAnd burning clove.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart.

Two such as you with such a master speed,Cannot be parted nor be swept away.

She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.