Robert Frost Quotes
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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.
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The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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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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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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For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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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.
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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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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
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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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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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You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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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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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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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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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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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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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.