Quotes from Robert Frost
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
- Robert Frost
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
- Robert Frost
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
- Robert Frost
You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
- Robert Frost
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
- Robert Frost
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
- Robert Frost
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
- Robert Frost
Despite our fears and worries, and they are very real to all of us, life continues — it goes on. In these three words I can sum up everything I have learned in my 80 years about life — it goes on.
- Robert Frost
A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.
- Robert Frost
I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
- Robert Frost
There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
- Robert Frost
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
- Robert Frost