Quotes from Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Life is tons of discipline.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.

One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

The footpath down to the well is healed.