Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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Create and stir other people to create.
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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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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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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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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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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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We love things we love what they are.
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But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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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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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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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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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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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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Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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We love the things we love for what they are.