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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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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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 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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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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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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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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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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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'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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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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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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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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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
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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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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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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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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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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 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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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.