The quotations of

Robert Frost

American poet

1874–1963

59 quotes, most often on Poetry, Love and Writing. Part of the Poets collection.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context
- Risk
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Attributed in Ray Josephs, “Robert Frost’s Secret”, in William Nichols (ed.) Words to Live By (Simon and Schuster, 1959), pp. 172–73
- Life & Death
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Education
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- Poetry
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
In the Clearing (1962), “Forgive, O Lord”
- Forgiveness
- God
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
Interview in Writers at Work (1963)
- Children
Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
- Education
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Love
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.
- Work
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
A Witness Tree (1942), Title of poem
- Happiness
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
- Money
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.
- Talking
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Work
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
- Writing
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Laws

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