Robert Frost Quotes
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.
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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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End is a gloomy word.
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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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 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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Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes.
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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.
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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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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.
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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.
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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 write to find out what I didn't know I knew.