Robert Frost Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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

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

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

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.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn't been.

Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost 1874–1963

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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

Nor is there wanting in the press
Some spirit to stand simply forth,
Heroic in it nakedness,
Against the uttermost of earth.
The tale of earth's unhonored things
Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;
And the mind whirls and the heart sings,
And a shout greets the daring one.

I could give all to Time except - except
What I myself have held. But why declare
The things forbidden that while the Customs slept
I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,
And what I would not part with I have kept.

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

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

But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.