Robert Frost Quotes
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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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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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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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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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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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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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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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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Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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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...
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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.