Robert Frost Quotes
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
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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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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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A turning point in modern history.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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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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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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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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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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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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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.