Robert Frost Quotes
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I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
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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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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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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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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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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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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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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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We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.
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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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"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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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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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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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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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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Love has earth to which she clings....
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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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Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.