Quotes by Robert Frost

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness Im against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The only certain freedoms in departure.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

“They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)”

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.”

“Ive given offense by saying Id as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”