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Robert Frost Quotes - Page 17

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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Funny, Life, Family

But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.

Soul, Target, Body

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

Home, Ballgame, Feels

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Moving, Circles, Style

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

Age, Needs, Know How

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.114, Harvard University Press

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

Writing, Heaven, Ifs

A turning point in modern history.

America, History, Modern

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

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

Believe, Teaching, School

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.70, Harvard University Press

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

Rain, Eye, Night

"Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.

Eye, Dark, Night

Robert Frost (1949). “Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949”, New York : H. Holt

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

Life, Marriage, Men

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

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

Funny, Humor, Cutting

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

Heart, Abode, Heart Ache

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

Teacher, Teaching, Mean

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

Hate, People, Worry

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

Mistake, Past, Self

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

Mean, Thinking, People

"Education by Poetry". Robert Frost's speech at Amherst College in Massachusetts, www.en.utexas.edu. February 1931.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

Teacher, Fire, Age

Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.744, Harvard University Press

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

Age, Youth, Made

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

New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.

Thinking, Style, Dresses

Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

Haven't you heard, though, About the ships where war has found them out At sea, about the towns where war has come Through opening clouds at night with droning speed Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels And children in the ships and in the towns?

Stars, Children, War

Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.

Running, Lying, Snow

Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

Birth Life, Earth, Birth

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

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

God, Regret, Human Condition

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

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

Music, Dwelling Place, Tree

Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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