Robert Frost Quotes
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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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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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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All great things are done for their own sake.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....
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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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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 best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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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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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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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 miles to go before I sleep...
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.
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All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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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 jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.