Robert Frost Quotes
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I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.
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As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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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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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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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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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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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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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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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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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.
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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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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.