Quotes from Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

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.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Nothing gold can stay.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

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

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.