Robert Frost Quotes — People

A dark partly inverted umbrella hangs against swirling violet storm clouds. — Original artwork

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

Robert Frost

A wax-sealed envelope rests beside a rose, scattered petals and a wrapped gift with a gold ribbon. — Original artwork

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

Painterly brass balance scale with folded paper weighing down one pan against dark green. — Original artwork

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost

A small glowing amber paper house sitting on a folded teal and mustard patchwork quilt. — Original artwork

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. "I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve."

Robert Frost

A four-compartment wooden box holds green buds, a peach, a red maple leaf and a frosted pine sprig. — Original artwork

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief; So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

A pair of worn brown boots on gravel with a small yellow wildflower growing between them. — Original artwork

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

Robert Frost

A wooden figure pushes a wheelbarrow of bricks beside three figures resting in a green hammock. — Original artwork

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost

Painterly worn leather boots pointing opposite ways atop a wooden signpost in a dry landscape. — Original artwork

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost