Robert Frost Quotes
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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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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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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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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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What we live by we die by.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
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My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.
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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
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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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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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One age is like another for the soul.
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.