Robert Frost People Quotations

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.

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

Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

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.

If one by one we counted people out

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.

Create and stir other people to create.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us.

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

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

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.