Robert Frost Quotes
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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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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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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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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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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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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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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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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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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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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'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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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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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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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far apart.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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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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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.
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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.