Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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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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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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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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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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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.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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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 would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....
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Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
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I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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The artist in me cries out for design.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.