Quote

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

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
Engaging
Humour
Hold
Enemy
Able
Play
Gunshot
Gunshots
Cowardice

More quotes by Robert Frost

Image
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Robert Frost
Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
Image
Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
Robert Frost
Image
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
Image
Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
Robert Frost
Image
'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
Robert Frost
Image
Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
Robert Frost
Image
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
Robert Frost
Image
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
Robert Frost
Image
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
Robert Frost
Image
You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
Robert Frost
Image
When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
Robert Frost
Image
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
Robert Frost
Image
Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
Robert Frost
Image
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
Image
The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Image
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
Robert Frost
Image
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost
Image
Life is tons of discipline.
Robert Frost
Image
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost