Robert Frost Quotes
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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
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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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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
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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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We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.
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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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Love has earth to which she clings....
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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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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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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The only way around is through.
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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.