Robert Frost Quotes
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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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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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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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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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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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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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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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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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To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.
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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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'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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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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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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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material....