Robert Frost Quotes
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Create and stir other people to create.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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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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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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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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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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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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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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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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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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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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Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come back.
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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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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.
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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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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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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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An idea is a feat of association.
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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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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.