Robert Frost Quotes
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The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.
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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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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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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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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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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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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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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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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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War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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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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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.