Quotes from Robert Frost

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

No tears and the writer, no tears and the reader.

Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.