Robert Frost Quotes

• I turned to speak to God About the world’s despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn’t there.

  Robert Frost

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• Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

  Robert Frost

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• The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

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

  Robert Frost

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• Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs.

  Robert Frost

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• Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate.

  Robert Frost

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

  Robert Frost

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• The land was ours before we were the land’s. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

  Robert Frost

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

  Robert Frost

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• What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall?— If design govern in a thing so small.

  Robert Frost

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• A poet is a person who thinks there is something special about a poet and about his loving one unattainable woman. You’ll usually find he takes the physical out on whores. I am defining a romantic poet—and there is no other kind. An unromantic poet is a self-contradiction.

  Robert Frost

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• The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be— The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.

  Robert Frost

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• It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in. The tribute of the current to the source.

  Robert Frost

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• I have been one acquainted with the night.

  Robert Frost

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• Never tell me that not one star of all That slip from heaven at night and softly fall Has been picked up with stones to build a wall.

  Robert Frost

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• He knew too well for any earthly use The line where man leaves off and nature starts, And never overstepped it save in dreams.

  Robert Frost

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• No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

  Robert Frost

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• They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

  Robert Frost

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• I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

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• The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.

  Robert Frost

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Robert Frost (142)

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

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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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