Robert Frost Quotes
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Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze ...
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
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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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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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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden
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I have miles to go before I sleep...
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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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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I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.