Robert Frost Life Quotations

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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.

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

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.

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

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

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.

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

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

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

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.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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.

I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference

A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone.

An idea comes as close to something for nothing as you can get.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Nothing gold can stay.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.