Robert Frost Quotes
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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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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Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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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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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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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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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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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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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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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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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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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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The only way out is to go through.
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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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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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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.