Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Good fences make good neighbors.
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What we live by we die by.
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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 go to school the youth to learn the future.
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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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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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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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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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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
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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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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed....
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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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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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Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.
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The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.
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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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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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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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One age is like another for the soul.
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A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone.