Famous Quotes by Robert Frost
- You can’t get too much winter in the winter. More
- By straightening out and lifting a forefinger,
He pointed with his hand from where it... More - “Well,
She has him, then, though what she wants him for
I don’t see.”
... More - “A baby’s crying!
Frantic it sounds, though muffled and far off.
Its mother... More - Hear the soft bombs of dust
It bursts against us at the chimney mouth,
And at the eaves.... More - “... Not but I’ve every reason not to care
What happens to him if it only takes
Some... More - One of the lies would make it out that nothing
Ever presents itself before us... More - “Try speaking. Say ‘Hello!’”
“Hello. Hello.”
“What do you hear?”
... More - “... But let’s forgive him.
We’ve had a share in one night of his life.
What’ll... More - “It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
And its eyes shut with... More - He lingered for some word she wouldn’t say,
Said it at last himself, “Good-night,” and... More - “Our snowstorms as a rule
Aren’t looked on as man-killers, and although
I’d rather... More - I detest the thought of him
With his ten children under ten years old.
I hate his... More - As they get more nuclear
And more bigoted in reliance
On the gospel of modern science ... More - Between us two it’s not a star at all.
It’s a new patented electric light,
Put up on... More - “... The slave will never thank his manumitter;
Which often makes the manumitter bitter.” More - You know how cunningly mankind is planned:
We have one loving and one hating hand.
The... More - “As liberals we’re willing to give place
To any demonstrably better race,
No matter... More - A town debars
Much notice of what’s going on in stars. More - Give us a good cheap twenty-four-hour day,
No part of which we’d have to waste, I... More - “... We need the interruption of the night
To ease attention off when overtight,
To... More - “... Ain’t it a caution to us not to fix
No limits to what rose in rubbing sticks
On... More - So at a knock
I emptied my cage
To hide in the world
And alter with age. More - The Muse mourns one who went to his retreat
Long since in some abysmal city street.... More - As I have known them passionate and fine,
The gold for which they leave the golden... More - She would refuse love safe with wealth and honor!
The lovely shall be choosers, shall... More - “Speaking of contraries, see how the brook
In that white wave runs counter to... More - (The black stream, catching on a sunken rock,
Flung backward on itself in one white... More - When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold. More - I go to school to youth to learn the future. More
- Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,
In her complacent ministry of fear,
How we... More - I said I had the tree. It wasn’t true.
The opposite was true. The tree had me.
The... More - I had not taken the first step in knowledge;
I had not learned to let go with the... More - But that beginning was wiped out in fear
The day I swung suspended with the grapes,
And... More - The mind is not the heart.
I may yet live, as I know others live,
To wish in vain to let... More - It is getting dark and time he drew to a house,
But the blizzard blinds him to any house... More - Lovers, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And... More - But the flower leaned aside
And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the... More - You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He is more... More
- Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. More
- Stays more popular
Than populous. More - Four-room shack aspiring high
With an arm of scrawny mast
For the visions in the... More - I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree’s overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For... More - He meditates the breeder’s art.
He has a half a mind to start,
With her for Mother Eve,... More - We stood a moment so, in a strange world,
Myself as one his own pretense deceives;
And... More - No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
If... More - The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live... More - The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear
A... More - If the day comes when they know who
They are, they may know better where they are.
But... More - Than smoke and mist who better could appraise
The kindred spirit of an inner haze? More - With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it all made... More - “Safe!
Now let the night be dark for all of me.
Let the night be too dark for me to... More - They mean to tell us all was rolling blind
Till accidentally it hit on mind More - And yet for all this help of head and brain
How happily instinctive we remain,
Our best... More - the Omnibus
Had no real purpose till it got to us.
Never believe it. More - I see the callus on his sole,
The disappearing last of him
And of his race starvation... More - A breeze discovered my open book
And began to flutter the leaves to look
For a poem there... More - The latest creed that has to be believed
And entered in our childish catechism
Is that... More - A speck that would have been beneath my sight
On any but a paper sheet so white
Set off... More - I have a mind myself and recognize
Mind when I meet with it in any guise.
No one can know... More - I have none of the tenderer-than-thou
Collectivistic regimenting love
With which the... More - One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I... More - I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in... More - All we who prefer to live
Have a little whistle we give,
And flash, at the least... More - though small
As measured against the All,
I have been so instinctively thorough
About... More - Yet oh! the tempting flatness of a book,
To send it sailing out the attic window
Till it... More - Boys and bad hunters had known what to do
With stone and lead to unprotected... More - “For God’s sake, aren’t you fond of viewing nature?
You don’t like nature. All you... More - We made a day of it out of the world,
Ascending to descend to reascend. More - All the way home I kept remembering
The small book in my pocket. It was there. More - My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there’s... More - For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself... More - Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of... More - Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his
Long sleep, as I... More - I turned and looked back up at the sky,
Where we still look to ask the why
Of everything... More - And he said, “That ought to make you
An ideal one-girl farm,
And give you a chance to... More - Her crop was a miscellany
When all was said and done,
A little bit of everything,
A... More - And she never sins by telling the tale
To the same person twice. More - To think to know the country and not know
The hillside on the day the sun lets go
Ten... More - The moon was waiting for her chill effect.
I looked at nine: the swarm was turned to... More - It takes the moon for this. The sun’s a wizard
By all I tell; but so’s the moon a witch. More - “Really, friend, I can’t let you. You may need them.”
“Not till I shrink, when... More - Lancaster bore him such a little town,
Such a great man. It doesn’t see him often
Of... More - A man? A brute. Naked above the waist,
He sat there creased and shining in the... More - I’ve spoiled Jemima in more ways than one.
She’s got so she turns in at every... More - Though a great scholar, he’s a democrat,
If not at heart, at least on principle. More - “Don’t touch me, please I say, don’t touch me, please.
I’ll not be put to bed by you,... More - ... picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you. More - The headless aftermath ... More
- I have safely trodden underfoot the leaves of another year. More
- They tapped at my eyelids and touched my lips with an invitation to grief.
But it was no... More - The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift.
The road is forlorn all day.... More - Come over the hills and far with me,
And be my love in the rain. More - Oh, never this whelming east wind swells
But it seems like the sea’s return
To the... More - Eyes seeking the response of eyes
Bring out the stars, bring out the flowers,
Thus... More - The factory was very fine;
He wished it all the modern speed.
Yet, after all, ‘twas not... More - Man’s ingenuity was good.
He saw it plainly where he stood,
Yet found it easy to resist. More - He knew a path that wanted walking;
He knew a spring that wanted drinking;
A thought that... More - Did you stay up last night (the Magi did)
To see the star shower known as Leonid
That... More - The heartless and enormous Outer Black ... More