Robert Frost Quotes
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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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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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End is a gloomy word.
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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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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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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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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.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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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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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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Next to nothing for use.But a crop is a crop,And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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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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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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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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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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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 one by one we counted people out.
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An idea is a feat of association.