Quotes from Robert Frost

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

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

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

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

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

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.

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

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

The only way around is through.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.