Robert Frost Quotes
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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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 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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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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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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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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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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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.
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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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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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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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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.
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The only way out is to go 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 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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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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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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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.