Quotes from Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...

Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.

Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.

Love has earth to which she clings.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

The only way round is through.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

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