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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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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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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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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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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Ants are a curious race.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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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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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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To be social is to be forgiving.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
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Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come back.
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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.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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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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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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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.