Quotes by Robert Frost
We love things we love what they are.
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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.
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
"A sigh for every so many breath, And for every so many sigh a death....
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Society
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.
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
The artist in me cries out for design.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
The land was ours before we were the lands. She was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people. She was oursIn Massachusetts, in Virginia,But we were Englands, still colonials,Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Something we were withholding made us weakUntil we found out that it was ourselvesWe were withholding from our land of living,And forthwith found salvation in surrender. Such as we were we gave ourselves outrightTo the land vaguely realizing westward,But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,Such as she was, such as she would become.
"Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction."
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
"A thousand Christmas trees! at what apiece?" He felt some need of softening that to me:...
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
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 twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Poetry
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Poetry
Smile. Tomorrow's going to be worse.
