The Most Inspirational Robert Frost Quotes

The Most Inspirational Robert Frost Quotes

Robert Frost (born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts) came to fame for his depictions of rural life in New England. His wide variety of themes and the form he used for his poems reveal a deep interest in simple folks and the intense emotional charges experienced by ordinary people in everyday situations. True to his interest in rural settings he combined traditional metrical form and unadorned verse that came straight from the natural rhythms and rhymes of everyday exchanges.

Peculiar as it might seem, although his poetry was immersed in the settings of American rural life, Frost did not begin his carrier as a poet in the USA but in London, UK. Frost moved to London with his family in 1912 to seek a publishing house for his poems in  the more receptive London scene. This extreme move was more than successful; soon he saw his first book, A Boy’s Will, published and attracting attention. After the publication of his second collection, North of Boston, his name started to pop up as a regular reference of a modern American poet, in London literary circles. Americans traveling in London started buying his books and talking about the work of an unknown American poet stimulating acclamation in London. When he returned in Boston in 1915 Frost had already gained a fast track to a belated fame.

Sometimes tragic and others an optimist Frost found his inspiration in everyday events. His overlook in life, as it pours out from his poetry, is a combination of stoicism, tenaciousness and tragic endurance. His poems often have the form of a monologue or a dialogue of simple folk ruminating or debating about a daily happening in a  straightforward, colloquial voice. Frost connected the simple events he chose with a vast range of human experiences and divulged through his poetry deep human truths. His breadth and depth of work helped him overcome the New England poet label and acquire a national coverage.

Frost has received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry in his lifetime and is officially recognized as a poet whose poetry “has enriched the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world”. Whether his technical brilliance, his down-to-earth and close-to-heart choice of subjects or his command of colloquial speech Frost is lodged in the hearts of Americans as one of the few poets that made sense in the 20th century.

• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
• Freedom lies in being bold.
• To be social is to be forgiving.
• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
• If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.
• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
• 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.
• The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
• Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That’s voting.
• I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
• A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.
• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I- I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
• It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Robert Frost Best Quotes about Poetry

• You’re always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.
• Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
• Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Best Funny Quotes by Robert Frost

• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
• 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.
• I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
• There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.

• By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
• By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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