Robert Frost Quotes and Sayings

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Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.

Robert Frost Quotes and Sayings

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
- Robert Frost

What we live by we die by.
- Robert Frost

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
- Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
- Robert Frost

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
- Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
- Robert Frost

Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
- Robert Frost

This as it will be seen is other far / Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song. / We love the things we love for what they are.
- Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
- Robert Frost

Writing a poem is discovering
- Robert Frost

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
- Robert Frost

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
- Robert Frost

I go to school the youth to learn the future.
- Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
- Robert Frost

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.
- Robert Frost

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


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