Robert Frost Quotes
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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
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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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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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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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Next to nothing for use.But a crop is a crop,And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?
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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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Nature is always hinting at us.
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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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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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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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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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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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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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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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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Ants are a curious race.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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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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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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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.