Robert Frost Quotes
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Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
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If one by one we counted people out.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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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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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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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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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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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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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....
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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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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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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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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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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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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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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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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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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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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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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.