830 Quotes by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed....

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

Life is tons of discipline.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.