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Quotes by Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Part of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poured softly in her lap. She sawAnd spread her apron to it. She put out her handAmong the harp-like morning-glory strings,Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves,As if she played unheard the tendernessThat wrought on him beside her in the night.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane.

And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but holdAnd freshen in this air of withering sweetness;

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

To be social is to be forgiving.

The only way round is through.

Always fall in with what youre asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatevers going. Not against: with.

You have freedom when youre easy in your harness.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

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

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.

The middle of the road is where the white line is and thats the worst place to drive.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and cant and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybodys doubt whatsoever.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.