Robert Frost Quotes
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Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.
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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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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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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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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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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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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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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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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....
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Ants are a curious race.
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Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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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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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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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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End is a gloomy word.
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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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Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.