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Robert Frost Quotes - Page 13

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Love Is, Desire, Delight

"The Figure a Poem Makes". Essay by Robert Frost, 1939.

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

Love, Life, Sweet

Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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.

Spiritual, Healing, Profound

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

Observation, Edges

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.

Brave, Ethics, Chance

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Men, Poet, Hours

I have miles to go before I sleep.

Sleep, Miles, Miles To Go

Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Travel, Home, Pieces

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

Way, Agree, Best Way

Robert Frost (2004). “North of Boston”, p.38, 1st World Publishing

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.

Fall, Sleep, Winter

Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.94, Coyote Canyon Press

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

Lonely, Loneliness, Men

Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.145, Coyote Canyon Press

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

Conservative, Young, Radical

"Precaution" l. 1 (1936)

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

Summer, Tree, Bud

Robert Frost, Robert Newdick (1932). “Robert Frost”

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

Gears, Reason, Steering

Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

Stupid, Believe, People

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.110, Harvard University Press

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Mother, Men, Vanity

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

God, Wisdom, Trust In God

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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

Fire, House, Vision

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.314, Harvard University Press

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

Home, May, Knows

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

Kings, School, Government

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.

Summer, Fun, June

Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Dream, Facts, Labor

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.354, Harvard University Press

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

Teamwork, Men, Working Together

Robert Frost, “The Tuft Of Flowers”

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

Writing, Play, Poetry

In Edward Lathem 'Interviews with Robert Frost' (1966) p. 203

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

House, Bird, Fly Away

Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.732, Harvard University Press

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