Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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
Father
Wishes
America
Humorous
Give
Son
Giving
Americans
Made
Knew
Like
Rich
Hardships
Funny
Nationalism
Wish
Hardship
More quotes by Robert Frost
A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
Robert Frost
The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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
If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
Robert Frost
The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
Robert Frost
I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
Robert Frost
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
Robert Frost
I never take my own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
Robert Frost
No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
Robert Frost
We're either nothing or a God's regret.
Robert Frost
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
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
Robert Frost
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
Robert Frost
Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
Robert Frost
I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
Robert Frost
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
Robert Frost
When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
Robert Frost
I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
Robert Frost
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
Robert Frost
