830 Quotes by Robert Frost

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.