Quotes About Robert Frost

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.

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Because of his unusual way of handling language, Cummings had to travel a long road from the time his early books were ridiculed for their eccentricity to the point at which, with Robert Frost, he was one of the two most popular poets in America.

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 thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

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

I shall make the reckless choice Some day when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on. I shall have less to say, But I shall be gone.

Sudden and swift and light as that The ties gave, And he learned of finalities Besides the grave.

The realist always falls in love with a girl he has grown up with, the romanticist with a girl from 'off somewhere.

I'm glad of any political freedom they give me, but what I'm interested in is not political freedom. I'm interested in the liberties I take.

I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost.

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.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyesWill keep my talk from getting overwise,I'm not the one for putting off the proof.Let it be overwhelming.

Unless I'm wrongI but obeyThe urge of a song:I'm—bound—away!And I may returnIf dissatisfiedWith what I learnFrom having died.

Peter James Stanlis. Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher. Second Edition. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008

Natalie S. Bober. A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost. Henry Holt: New York, 1998

their happiness as some other tribe's unhappiness. As a quintessentially American voice, that of Robert Frost,

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.