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Robert Frost [1874-1963] American
Rank: 4
Poet (with poems)

Blank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular


Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. 

Poetry, Work, Freedom, Society, Education, Great, Change, Forgiveness, Inspirational, Life, Money, Power, Wisdom, Age, Alone, Best, Birthday, Business, Communication, Design, Family, Father's Day, Fear, Funny, Happiness, History, Home, Hope, Humor, Legal, Love, Morning, Moving On, Nature, Politics, Space, Sports, Teacher, Wedding, Women



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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Life, Moving On
10
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Nature
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Inspirational
103
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Poetry
104
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Home
105
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
106
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Education
107
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Love
108
Freedom lies in being bold. Freedom
109
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. Freedom, Society
110
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. Change, Education
111
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. Morning, Work
112
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. Life
113
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Happiness
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Work
115
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Age, Birthday
116
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
117
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. Father's Day
118
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. Family
119
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. Society
120
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
121
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. Power
122
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Work
123
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. Communication
124
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Work
125
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.
126
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
201
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.
202
Education is hanging around until you've caught on. Education
203
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Best, Society
204
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. Legal
205
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
206
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. Fear
207
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
208
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
209
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
210
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Change, Society
211
I always entertain great hopes. Great, Hope
212
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia. Great
213
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. Forgiveness
214
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. Great
216
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
217
The only certain freedom's in departure. Freedom
218
The best way out is always through. Inspirational
219
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
220
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
221
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. Funny, Wedding
222
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Wisdom
223
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. Work
224
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. Forgiveness
225
Humor is the most engaging cowardice. Humor
226
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
301
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
302
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. Freedom
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. Business, Money
304
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
305
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. Women
306
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.
307
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
308
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
309
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. History, Power
310
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
311
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
312
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Poetry
313
The only way round is through.
314
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
315
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
316
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
317
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. Teacher
318
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Poetry
319
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.
320
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
321
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. Alone
322
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.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
324
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
325
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. Space
326
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Poetry
401
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.
402
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.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
404
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
405
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Poetry, Politics
407
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
408
What we live by we die by.
409
The artist in me cries out for design. Design
410
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
411
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. Sports
412
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
413
To be social is to be forgiving.
414
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. Wisdom
415
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
416
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
417
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
418
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
419
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
420
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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We love things we love what they are.
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