Robert Frost Quotes
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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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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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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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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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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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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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A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork.
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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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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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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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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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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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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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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 sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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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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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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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.