Facts about Robert Frost 
Summary
Robert Frost was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between March 26, 1874 and January 29, 1963.
Biography
Robert Lee Frost has written poems, The Road Not Taken (1916) and Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (1922).
The poem Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening has become famous as it appeared in some movies. Among other things in the movie Phone (1977) where the last verse is read for KGB agents who then carry out sabotage. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious.
Our collection contains 81 quotes who is written / told by Robert, under the main topics: Age, Design, Education, Home, Legal.
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Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
Famous quotes by Robert Frost (81)
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age"
"The best way out is always through"
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on"
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married"
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness"
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor"
"The artist in me cries out for design"
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence"
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in"
"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman"
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day"
"The only certain freedom's in departure"
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat"
"I always entertain great hopes"
"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar"
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion"
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader"
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation"
"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard"
"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power"
"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way"
"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down"
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended"
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office"
"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old"
"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows"
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader"
"Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent"
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn"
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness"
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession"
"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting"
"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true"
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate"
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies"
"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism"
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them"
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep"
"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination"
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work"
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise"
"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second"
"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on"
"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"
"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space"
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice"
"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape"
"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things"
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market"
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired"
"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on"
"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia"
"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom"
"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving"
"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed"
"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense"
"Humor is the most engaging cowardice"
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium"
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length"
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it"
"Freedom lies in being bold"
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me"
"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense"
"College is a refuge from hasty judgment"
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep"
"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so"
"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world"
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with"
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair"
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone"
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes"
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel"
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer"
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity"
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain"
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on"
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard"
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up"
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