Poetry Quote by Robert Frost — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“The way a crow”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)”

“The magic fades too fast”

“This week”

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

“Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.”

“Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.”

“You do not have to be good.”