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Robert Frost

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Robert Frost (1874–1963) was an American poet known for his realistic depictions of rural New England life and his command of colloquial speech. Four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Frost is among the most popular and critically acclaimed poets in American history. Lines from poems like "The Road Not Taken" have become part of the cultural fabric.

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”

— Robert Frost

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All Quotes by Robert Frost

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

— Robert Frost

Home

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”

— Robert Frost

Love

“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.”

— Robert Frost

Life

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

— Robert Frost

Work

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

— Robert Frost

Work

“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”

— Robert Frost

Great

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

— Robert Frost

Men

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

— Robert Frost

Work

“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”

— Robert Frost

Freedom

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

— Robert Frost

Wisdom

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

— Robert Frost

Society

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”

— Robert Frost

Life

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

— Robert Frost

Business

“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”

— Robert Frost

Power

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

— Robert Frost

Alone

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

— Robert Frost

Love

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

— Robert Frost

Education

“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”

— Robert Frost

Freedom

“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”

— Robert Frost

Fear

“The artist in me cries out for design.”

— Robert Frost

Design