Robert Frost Quotes

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Robert Frost

Profession : Poet

Birth : March 26, 1874

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

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

Robert Frost

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

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

Robert Frost

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Robert Frost

The only way round is through.

Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Robert Frost

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

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

Robert Frost

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

Robert Frost

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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What we live by we die by.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Robert Frost