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
True
Writing
Icy
Ears
Reader
Writer

More quotes by Robert Frost

Image
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost
Image
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Robert Frost
Image
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Image
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
Image
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost
Image
A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
Robert Frost
Image
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert Frost
Image
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
Robert Frost
Image
Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
Robert Frost
Image
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Robert Frost
Image
I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
Robert Frost
Image
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert Frost
Image
We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
Image
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
Robert Frost
Image
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
Robert Frost
Image
It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
Robert Frost
Image
Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
Image
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
Image
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
Robert Frost
Image
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost