Quotes from Robert Frost
We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
- Robert Frost
I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
- Robert Frost
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
- Robert Frost
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
- Robert Frost
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
- Robert Frost
loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
- Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Robert Frost
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
- Robert Frost
God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
- Robert Frost
They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
- Robert Frost
You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
- Robert Frost