Robert Frost Quotes
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To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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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.
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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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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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Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich. Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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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.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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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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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.