Quote

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

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
Ends
Right
Tolerance
Uncomfortable
Feeling
Feelings

More quotes by Robert Frost

Image
The footpath down to the well is healed.
Robert Frost
Image
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
Robert Frost
Image
You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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
States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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
Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
Robert Frost
Image
Nature's first green is gold.
Robert Frost
Image
Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
Robert Frost
Image
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost
Image
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
Robert Frost
Image
Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
Robert Frost
Image
The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
Robert Frost
Image
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Robert Frost
Image
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
Robert Frost
Image
I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
Robert Frost
Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Image
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
Robert Frost
Image
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
Robert Frost
Image
I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
Robert Frost