Explore Quotes by Robert Frost

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

All great things are done for their own sake.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

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

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

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

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.