Robert Frost Quotes
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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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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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
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I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.
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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.