Robert Frost Quotes

Robert Frost is recognized as an important "nature poet" in American literature, famous for his depiction of the New England landscape. Some of his most famous works include: "The Road Not Taken," "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," and "Home Burial." Here are a few quotes from Robert Frost.

• "The kind of Unitarian
  Who having by elimination got
  From many gods to Three, and Three to One,
  Thinks why not taper off to none at all."
  - Robert Frost, "A Masque of Mercy"
  
  
• "The artist in me cries out for design."
  - Robert Frost, "A Masque of Reason"
  
  
• "And of course there must be something wrong
  In wanting to silence any song."
  - Robert Frost, "A Minor Bird"
  
  
• "The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
  Of baby green and show the white beneath...."
  - Robert Frost, "A Young Birch"
  
  
• "Where my imaginary line
  Bends square in woods, an iron spine
  And pile of real rocks have been founded."
  - Robert Frost, "Beech"
  
  
• "For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings."
  - Robert Frost, "Bond and Free"
  
  
• "They must have seen ahead what now appears:
  They would bring empires down about our ears
  And by the example of our Declaration
  Make everybody want to be a nation."
  - Robert Frost, "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration"
  
  
• "I dwell in a lonely house I know
  That vanished many a summer ago...."
  - Robert Frost, "Ghost House"
  
  
• "All those who try to go it sole alone,
  Too proud to be beholden for relief,
  Are absolutely sure to come to grief."
  - Robert Frost, "Haec Fabula Docet"
  
  
• "A brush had left a crooked stroke
  Of what was either cloud or smoke
  From north to south across the blue;
  A piercing little star was through."
  - Robert Frost, "Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter"
  
  
• "You linger your little hour and are gone,
  And still the woods sweep leafily on...."
  - Robert Frost, "On Going Unnoticed"
  
  
• "Life is not so sinister-grave.
  Matter of fact has made them brave.
  He is husband, she is wife.
  She fears not him, they fear not life."
  - Robert Frost, "On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind"
  
  
• "But with one step backward taken
  I saved myself from going.
  A world torn loose went by me."
  - Robert Frost, "One Step Backward Taken"
  
  
• "They listened at his heart.
  Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it.
  No more to build on there. And they, since they
  Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs."
  - Robert Frost, "Out, Out"
  
  
• "By measure. It was word and note,
  The wind the wind had meant to be
  A little through the lips and throat.
  The aim was song the wind could see."
  - Robert Frost, "The Aim Was Song"
  
  
• "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
  What I was walling in or walling out,
  And to whom I was like to give offense.
  Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
  That wants it down.'"
  - Robert Frost, "The Mending Wall"
  
  
• "They are that that talks of going
  But never gets away;
  And that talks no less for knowing,
  As it grows wiser and older,
  That now it means to stay."
  - Robert Frost, "The Sound of the Trees"