Robert Frost Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork.
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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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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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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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You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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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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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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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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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.