Robert Frost Quotes
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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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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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The footpath down to the well is healed.
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Haven't you heard, though, About the ships where war has found them out At sea, about the towns where war has come Through opening clouds at night with droning speed Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels And children in the ships and in the towns?
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Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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The test is always how we treat the poor.
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.
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I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
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The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.