Quotes from Robert Frost

Far in the pillared darkThrush music went—Almost like a call to come inTo the dark and lament.But no, I was out for stars:I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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

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

My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse near.

Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone That science may have staked the future on? He seems to say the reason why so much Should come to nothing must be fairly faced.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out.

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

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.