Robert Frost Quotes
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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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'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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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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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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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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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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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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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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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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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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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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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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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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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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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.