Robert Frost Quotes

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length"

"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

"The best way out is always through."

"[Style is] that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

"The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people."

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

"If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on."

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall"

"Earth's the right place for love; / I don't know where it's likely to go better."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"[It's easy to wax satirical about the possibility that in some future time there could be more poets laureate in Colorado than readers of poetry. The fact is, poetry is an endangered species, and even those of us with a more prosaic bent can appreciate the importance of encouraging a broader audience. Of course, even poets have different views of what they do. Pablo Neruda wrote, for example, that] poetry is an act of peace, ... Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand."

"All the fun's in how you say a thing"

"I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."

"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."