Robert Frost Quotes
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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He says the best way out is always through. And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far apart.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?