Frost Quotes - Page 2

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it

Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death." "Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.

I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.

I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.