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Robert Frost Quotes - Page 16

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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Statistics, Outsiders, Dignity

Ants are a curious race

Race, Ants, Curious

Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Stills, Possessing, Possessed

Reginald Lansing Cook, Robert Frost (1974). “Robert Frost, a living voice”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

Love, Sweet, Pain

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

I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

Hate, Thinking, Ice

Source: www.wbur.org

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Hope, Failure, Pride

North of Boston (1914) "Death of the Hired Man"

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

Work, Heart, Together

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.214, Harvard University Press

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

Tree, Doe, Care

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

Silence, Tree, Toss

Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.22, Courier Corporation

I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.

Grace, Reform, Scales

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

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

Night, White, Giving

Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.7, Courier Corporation

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

1916 'The Oven Bird'.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

May, Worried

'Collected Poems' (1939) 'The Figure a Poem Makes'

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

Giving, Would Be, Deeds

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Running, Sun, Clock

928 'West-Running Brook'.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Love, Fate, Wish

Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Long, Track, Missing

Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.6, Harvard University Press

The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.

Moon, Light, Grace

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

The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.

Fall, Heart, Hands

Robert Frost (1928). “West-running Brook”, Henry Holt

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

Wedding, Two, Speed

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.

Apples, Too Much, Harvest

Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.57, Courier Corporation

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

Play, Likes, Eucharist

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

Affection, Craving, Overpowering

A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Believe, Sound, Poet

Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

Song, Voice, Imagination

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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