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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(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what you came for and become like me, Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
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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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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
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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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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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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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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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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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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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It looked as if a night of dark intent. Was coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water broken. Before God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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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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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.