Robert Frost
Poet
Sayings by Robert Frost
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
I'm not a person who believes in any kind of afterlife. I'm a person who believes in this life.
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get the knowledge I'm not using now.
I am a writer of the people, for the people, and by the people.
The only way out is through.
I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
You come too. My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. You come too.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love.
I am a living man. I have lived to be 86 years old. I have had a great deal of sorrow. I have had a great deal of joy. I have had a great deal of love.
A poem is never a put-up job.
Forgive me, but I'm going to be as rude as a poet has to be.
Thinking is not to be done by proxy.
My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight.
The greatest thing an education can give a man is the ability to think for himself.
I may not be a great poet, but I'm a hell of a good farmer.
If you don't know what you want, you won't get it.
The most important thing is to be yourself.
I'm not a nature poet. I have written two poems with nature in them.