Top 101 Quotes by Robert Frost

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.