Robert Frost Quotes
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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He says the best way out is always through. And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.
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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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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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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.
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O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.
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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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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!