Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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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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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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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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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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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
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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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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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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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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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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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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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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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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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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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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.
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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.