Quotes by Robert Frost

“I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lovers quarrel with the world.”

“Writing a poem is discovering”

“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.”

“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”

“Im not a teacher, but an awakener”

“Education is hanging around until youve caught on.”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”

“We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows”

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep”

“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”

“When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles, when the time comes to embrace for one long last while, we can laugh about how time really flies, we wont say goodbye, cause true love never dies. Youll always be beautiful in my eyes.”

“A liberal is a man too broad minded to take his own side in a quarrel”

“Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.”

“We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows”

“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week”