Quote

I play better tennis because the court is there.

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
Better
Play
Tennis
Court

More quotes by Robert Frost

Image
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
Image
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Robert Frost
Image
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost
Image
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Image
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
Robert Frost
Image
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
Robert Frost
Image
I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
Robert Frost
Image
Nature is always hinting at us.
Robert Frost
Image
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost
Image
Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
Robert Frost
Image
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
Robert Frost
Image
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
Robert Frost
Image
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost
Image
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
Robert Frost
Image
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost
Image
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost
Image
When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
Robert Frost
Image
States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
Robert Frost