Robert Frost Quotes
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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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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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The only way out is to go through.
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The chance is the remotest. Of its going much longer unnoticed. That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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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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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material....
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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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 rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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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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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!