Robert Frost Quotes
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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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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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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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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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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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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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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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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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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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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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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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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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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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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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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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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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.