Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
Robert Frost
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Stay
Literature
Every
Love
Life
World
Momentary
Poem
Confusion
More quotes by Robert Frost
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
Robert Frost
Life is tons of discipline.
Robert Frost
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
Robert Frost
The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
Robert Frost
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert Frost
I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Robert Frost
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.
Robert Frost
The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
Robert Frost
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
Robert Frost
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost
Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
Robert Frost
One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
Robert Frost
Don't be agnostic - be something.
Robert Frost
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
Robert Frost
