830 Quotes by Robert Frost

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

Piling up knowledge is as bad as piling up money. You have to begin sometime to kick around what you know.

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.

It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight