Robert Frost Quotes - Page 3

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.

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves.

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

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.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Freedom lies in being bold.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.

But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past.
The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing -
Too present to imagine.