Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
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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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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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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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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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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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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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Ants are a curious race.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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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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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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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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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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Good fences make good neighbors.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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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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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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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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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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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'