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Robert Frost Quotes - Page 8

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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

Writing, Men, Style

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

Art, Vocabulary, Discipline

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Ideas, Association, Height

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

Mean, Littles, Lost

"Robert Frost: A Backward Look". Book by Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1964.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

God Knows, Only God Knows, Knows

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

Positive, Ocean, Heart

Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

Sometimes, Wonder, Poet

1923 'New Hampshire'.

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Blessed, Giving, Giving Back

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.59, Harvard University Press

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Winter, Too Much, Funny Winter

Robert Frost (1993). “The Road Not Taken, and Other Poems”, p.42, Courier Corporation

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

Friendship, New York, Emotional

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Successful, Law, Feet

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Life, Motivation, Heart

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.301, Harvard University Press

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked 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.

Rain, Eye, Night

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

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Nature, Wall, Men

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Art, Stories, Crafts

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Truth, Belief, Being True

Robert Frost (1914). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.48, Courier Corporation

The only way round is through.

Wisdom, Work, Way

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Power, Icy, World

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

Ideas, Association, Height

Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Country, Art, Nice

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.

Life, Running, Sun

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

Baseball, Writing, Distinction

Robert Frost (1968). “Selected prose of Robert Frost”

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Death, Men, Worry

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Thinking, Snow, House

"Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 1 (1923)

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Freedom, Liberty, Fit

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