Robert Frost Quotes
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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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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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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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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Create and stir other people to create.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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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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I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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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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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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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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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.