Robert Frost Quotes
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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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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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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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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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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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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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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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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The artist in me cries out for design.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. 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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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
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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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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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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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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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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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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....