Robert Frost1874–1963Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
North of Boston (1914), The Black CottageA diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Attributed to Frost in Harvey Shapiro “Story of the Poem”, The New York Times (January 15, 1961), sec. SM, p. 6; and in Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981), p. 208- The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
Interview in Writers at Work (1963)Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (January 1, 1916)If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
- Interview with with Harvey Breit of The New York Times Book Review. As quoted in the following source: Associated Press (30 January 1963). “Robert Frost Dies at 88
- Letter to Louis Untermeyer (March 10, 1924)
