Robert Frost Quotes
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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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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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The artist in me cries out for design.
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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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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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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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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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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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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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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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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....
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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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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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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Next to nothing for use.But a crop is a crop,And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?
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Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come back.
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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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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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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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.