Quotes from Robert Frost

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end. God's Garden

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

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

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

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