Robert Frost Quotes
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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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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
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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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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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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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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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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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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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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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.