Explore more quotes by Robert Frost

"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."

Humor, Country, Russia

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

Attitude, Society, Eccentricity, Sanity

"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."

Humor, Cowardice

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

Education, Tears, Writer

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."

Wisdom, Thinking, Voting

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

Humor, Rain, Weather

"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."

Relationship, People, Sin

"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."

Leadership, History, Power, Washington, World

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

Business, Money, Poets, Poor

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."

Freedom, Society

Exlpore more Poetry quotes

"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Poetry, Music, Heart

"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry, Determination, Man

"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry, Work, Creation, Mind

"If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry,

"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry, Invention, Needs

"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry,

"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

Poetry, Books, Living, Pretty

"Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

Poetry, Writing, Years

"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

Poetry, Example, Poems

"Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses."

Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish Poet

Poetry, Questions