830 Quotes by Robert Frost

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

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other’s business.

I am assured at any rate Man’s practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There’s always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

There is the fear that we shan’t prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won’t understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn’t been.

I’m always saying something that’s just the edge of something more.

What you want, what you’re hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.