830 Quotes by Robert Frost

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine.

The Road not Taken[...]I shall be telling this with a sighsomewhere ages and ages hence:two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less travelled by,and that has made all the difference...

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

For, dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true?Cling to it long enough, and not a doubtIt will turn true again, for so it goes.Most of the change we think we see in lifeIs due to truths being in and out of favor.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind-Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells meThat I need learn to let go with the heart.