Robert Frost Quotes
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The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.
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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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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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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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We love the things we love for what they are.
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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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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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Ants are a curious race.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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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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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.
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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.
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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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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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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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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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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Nature is always hinting at us.