Robert Frost Quotes
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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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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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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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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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Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.
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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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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.