Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Create and stir other people to create.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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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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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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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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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.
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But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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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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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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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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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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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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I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.
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The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.