10 inspiring quotes from the famous poet
Today would have been Robert Frost’s 139th birthday.
We all read “Mending Wall” and “The Road Not Taken” in high school, but the great poet had a great many more fabulous poems than just those two.
He had a lot to say about the importance of poetry and being a writer, as well as some more general life advice, such as, “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life — It goes on.”
Here are 16 inspiring Robert Frost quotes in honor of the literary great’s b-day:
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life — It goes on.”
– Robert Frost
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
– Robert Frost
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting…Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.”
– Robert Frost
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
– Robert Frost
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
– Robert Frost
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
– Robert Frost
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
– Robert Frost
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
– Robert Frost
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
– Robert Frost
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost. NEWS DESK
