Robert Frost Quotes
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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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.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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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.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork.
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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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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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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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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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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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Love has earth to which she clings....
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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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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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"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.