Robert Frost Quotes
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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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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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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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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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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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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 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?
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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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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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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
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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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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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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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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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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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If one by one we counted people out.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....