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Robert Frost Art Quotes - (36 quotes)

Robert Frost - From the Audience category:

Hell is a half-filled auditorium. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Change category:

Most of the change we think we see in life / Is due to truths being in and out of favor. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Courage category:

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Desire category:

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Education category:

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Fear category:

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Form category:

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Fun category:

All the fun's in how you say a thing. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Gender category:

A diplomat is a person who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Happiness category:

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Humour category:

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee / And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Ideas category:

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Insight category:

What is required is sight and insight – then you might add one more: excite. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Journey category:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Journey category:

The only way round is through. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Life category:

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Limitations category:

I play better tennis because the court is there. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Poetry category:

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Poetry category:

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Poetry category:

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Poetry category:

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Poetry category:

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Poetry category:

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Poetry category:

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader of poetry. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Possibilities category:

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities... (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Silence category:

-to his students...
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Solitude category:

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Solitude category:

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Strength category:

Something we were withholding made us weak until we found it was ourselves. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Teaching category:

I am not a teacher but an awakener. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Travel category:

-The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Work category:

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Worry category:

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Writing category:

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Writing category:

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Robert Frost)

Robert Frost - From the Writing category:

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. (Robert Frost)

Editor: Robert Genn

Consultants: Sara Genn, Richard Thompson
Technical Support and Presentation: Andrew Niculescu

Associate Editors:
Scott Altman, Bonnie Austin, Karen Austin, Michele Becker, Joe Blodgett, Norman Brown, Alyce Bryson, Leanne Cadden, Penny Duane, Max Elliot, Derek Franklin, Mardy Grothe, Harry Hartley, Sue Holland, Shawn Jackson, Sue Legault, Tammy McManus, Eric Mewhinney, Bruce Miller, Laura Parrish, Andrea Pratt, Dan Roberts, Shirley Rochon, Gilbert Roy, John Sherlock, Victor Wong,

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