- Let chaos storm!
- Let cloud shapes swarm!
- I wait for form.
ROBERT FROST, "V. Pertinax"
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
ROBERT FROST, "The Black Cottage"
Home is the place, where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
ROBERT FROST, "The Death of a Hired Man"
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.
ROBERT FROST, as quoted in William Nichols' A New Treasury of Words to Live By
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST, as quoted in Vernon McLellan's Wise Words and Quotes
A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
ROBERT FROST, quoted in And I Quote
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
ROBERT FROST, "The Ingenuities of Debt"
- Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
- There are only middles.
ROBERT FROST, "In the Home Stretch"
- No wonder poets sometimes have to seem
- So much more businesslike than businessmen.
- Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
ROBERT FROST, "New Hampshire"
ROBERT FROST, "In the Home Stretch"
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
ROBERT FROST, as quoted in Elizabeth Sergeant's Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence
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