Robert Frost Quotes
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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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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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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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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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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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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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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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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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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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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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Ants are a curious race.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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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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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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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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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.
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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?