Quotes from Robert Frost

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold.Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

And were an epitaph to be my storyI'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.

The artist in me cries out for design.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

No memory of having starredAtones for later disregard,Or keeps the end from being hard.Better to go down dignifiedWith boughten friendship by your sideThan none at all. Provide, provide!

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says it means, nothing less but nothing more.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

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

Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

I always entertain great hopes.

It asks a little of us here.It asks of us a certain height,So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may take something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.

Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has.

I am assured at any rateMan's practically inexterminate.Someday I must go into that.There's always been an AraratWhere someone someone else begatTo start the world all over at.

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;I'll only stop to rake the leaves away(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):I shan't be gone long.—You come too.

If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyesWill keep my talk from getting overwise,I'm not the one for putting off the proof.Let it be overwhelming.

My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

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

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.