Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Nature is always hinting at us.
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The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
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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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Ants are a curious race.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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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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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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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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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.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
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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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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.