830 Quotes by Robert Frost

The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.