Robert Frost Quotes
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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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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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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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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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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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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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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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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As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
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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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If one by one we counted people out.
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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.
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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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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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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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End is a gloomy word.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state....