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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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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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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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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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
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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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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
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No wonder poets sometimes have to seem. So much more business-like than business men./ Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far apart.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
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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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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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Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,/ One each of everything as in a show-case/ Which naturally she doesn't care to sell.
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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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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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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.