Robert Frost Quotes
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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
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The footpath down to the well is healed.
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Loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round.
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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.