Explore Quotes by Robert Frost

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:_x000D__x000D_And now from having ridden out desire_x000D__x000D_They lie closed over in the wind and cling_x000D__x000D_Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

Love at the lips was touch_x000D__x000D_As sweet as I could bear;_x000D__x000D_And once that seemed too much;_x000D__x000D_I lived on air.

'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' _x000D__x000D_I don't suppose the water's changed at all. _x000D__x000D_You and I know enough to know it's warm _x000D__x000D_Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. _x000D__x000D_But all the fun's in how you say a thing.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds _x000D__x000D_To darken nature and be summer woods.

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

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,_x000D__x000D_In her complacent ministry of fear,_x000D__x000D_How we propose to get away from here_x000D__x000D_When she has made things so we have to go_x000D__x000D_Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show_x000D__x000D_Us how by rocket we may hope to steer_x000D__x000D_To some star off there, say, a half light-year_x000D__x000D_Through temperature of absolute zero?_x000D__x000D_Why wait for Science to supply the how_x000D__x000D_When any amateur can tell it now?_x000D__x000D_The way to go away should be the same_x000D__x000D_As fifty million years ago we came-_x000D__x000D_If anyone remembers how that was_x000D__x000D_I have a theory, but it hardly does.

And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

You're searching..._x000D__x000D_For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings._x000D__x000D_Ends and beginnings - there are no such things._x000D__x000D_There are only middles.

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.