Quote

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Robert Frost

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Icy
Ears
Reader
Writer
True
Writing

More quotes by Robert Frost

Image
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
Image
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
Image
Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
Robert Frost
Image
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.
Robert Frost
Image
Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
Robert Frost
Image
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
Robert Frost
Image
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
Robert Frost
Image
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Robert Frost
Image
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
Robert Frost
Image
But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
Robert Frost
Image
And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
Robert Frost
Image
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
Robert Frost
Image
There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
Robert Frost
Image
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost
Image
He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
Robert Frost
Image
The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
Robert Frost
Image
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
Robert Frost
Image
I play better tennis because the court is there.
Robert Frost
Image
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
Image
Let me be the one To do what is done.
Robert Frost