Robert Frost Quotes
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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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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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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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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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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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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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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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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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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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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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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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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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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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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We love the things we love for what they are.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.