Robert Frost Quotes
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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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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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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'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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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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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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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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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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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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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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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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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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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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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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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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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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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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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.
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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.