Robert Frost quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

  • The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

  • Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  • Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  • My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

  • Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  • Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  • The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

  • Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  • You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

  • Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

  • Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  • A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  • If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

  • Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

  • There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

  • The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

  • Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

  • To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  • The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  • A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

  • Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  • Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

  • Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

  • Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

  • You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

  • Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

  • I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

  • The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  • No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

  • The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  • The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

  • Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

  • Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

  • Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

  • There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

  • A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

  • The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

  • I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

  • Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

  • I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

  • Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

  • The best way out is always through.

  • Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

  • I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

  • Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  • Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  • So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may choose something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.

  • So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may choose something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid

  • There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

  • Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

  • The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.

  • I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  • I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain."

  • Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice."

  • Freedom lies in being bold.

  • Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

  • The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  • O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst...

  • 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.

  • I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.

  • A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

  • Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

  • I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

  • My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

  • You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

  • Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

  • Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

  • What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

  • A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

  • 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?

  • By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  • A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  • Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

  • The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

  • Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

  • Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

  • I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

  • A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  • College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  • We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

  • I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

  • No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found....

  • The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

  • The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

  • For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

  • For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

  • A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  • The only certain freedom's in departure.

  • Writing a poem is discovering.

  • Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

  • 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.

  • Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

  • The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

  • And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

  • Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

  • Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

  • Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

  • They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

  • If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

  • He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

  • The footpath down to the well is healed.

  • It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

  • The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

  • I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

  • In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  • Good fences make good neighbors.

  • You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

  • The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

  • One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

  • Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

  • The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

  • Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

  • I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

  • The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

  • A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

  • A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  • There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

  • Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share