Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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We love things we love what they are.
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But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.
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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.
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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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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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Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.
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I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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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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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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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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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'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.