Robert Frost Quotes
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
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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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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
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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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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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Create and stir other people to create.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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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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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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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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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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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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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.