Robert Frost Quotes
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The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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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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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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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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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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In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng....
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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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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If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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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 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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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us.
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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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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.