Robert Frost Quotes
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In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
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The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.
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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow....
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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar. Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are....
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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.