Robert Frost Quotes
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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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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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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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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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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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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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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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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No wonder poets sometimes have to seem. So much more business-like than business men./ Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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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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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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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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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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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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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?