Quotes from Robert Frost
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
- Robert Frost
Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
- Robert Frost
I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
- Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
- Robert Frost
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
- Robert Frost
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
- Robert Frost
There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
- Robert Frost
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
- Robert Frost
Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
- Robert Frost
Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
- Robert Frost
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
- Robert Frost