830 Quotes by Robert Frost

I write to find out what I didn’t know I knew.

A good book has no ending.

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart.

The best thing we’re put here for’s to see; The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple’s a rose, And the pear is, and so’s The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Poetry is play. I’d even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.