Robert Frost Quotes
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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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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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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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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The artist in me cries out for design.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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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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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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A turning point in modern history.
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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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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
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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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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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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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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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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.