25 Beautiful Robert Frost Quotes on Life and Human Nature
Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) is one of the most influential and famous American poets of all time. His work remains timeless, even today.
Frost published his first poem in his high school magazine and sold his first one in 1894 (My Butterfly: An Elegy) for $15. Despite being popular for his rural life poetry, Frost had to work all kinds of odd jobs in order to support his family.
Robert Frost’s personal life was filled with grief and loss. His father passed away when he was 11 years old, and Frost outlived four of his own six children.
In 1921, Frost accepted
a summer teaching position at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury
College, where he taught for the next 42 years and was credited for
encouraging and influencing upon the school’s development and writing programs.
The winner of no less than four Pulitzer Prizes was much admired for his depictions of New England, his great expertise on American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.
Here are 25 beautiful
Robert Frost quotes on life and human nature.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
We love the things we love for what they are.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Freedom lies in being bold.
The best way out is always through.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
The rain to the wind said, ‘You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed that the flowers actually knelt, and lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn't take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
