Robert Frost Quotes
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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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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
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We love things we love what they are.
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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 beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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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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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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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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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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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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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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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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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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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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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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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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If one by one we counted people out.
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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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I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.
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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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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?