Robert Frost Quotes
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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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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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Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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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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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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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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End is a gloomy word.
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If one by one we counted people out.
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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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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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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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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....
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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 came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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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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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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As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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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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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.