Robert Frost Quotes

• Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Education, Life

  Tags in Change

• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in College

  Tags in Judgement

• A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Life

• A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never

• Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Education

• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jokes

• Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Cowardice

• I go to school the youth to learn the future.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Future, Youth

• I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Lovers

• I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poem, Started

• 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.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, World

• Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hell

• I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer

• I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

• I always entertain great hopes.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always

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

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right

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

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Written, Stone

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

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Fear

• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often

• If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

Robert Frost (142)

Birth:	26th March, 1874
Death:	29th January, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.

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