Robert Frost Quotes
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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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As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.
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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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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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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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Nature is always hinting at us.
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If one by one we counted people out.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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Ants are a curious race.
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What we live by we die by.
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War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....
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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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Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
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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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Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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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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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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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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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.