Robert Frost Quotes
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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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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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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The only way around is through.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far apart.
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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy....
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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Love has earth to which she clings....
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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. 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; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.
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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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Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.
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What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.