Robert Frost: Trending quotes (page 10)

“Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.”

Robert Frost

" Education by Poetry http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/edbypo.html", speech delivered at Amherst College and subsequently revised for publication in the Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly (February 1931)
1930s

People , Way , Thinking

“Deliver us from committees.”

Robert Frost A Masque of Reason

"A Masque of Reason
1940s

“Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
And they are better for her praise.”

Robert Frost

1910s, My November Guest (1915)

Love , Learning

“Take care to sell your horse before he dies.
The art of life is passing losses on.”

Robert Frost

"The Ingenuities of Debt
1940s

Life , Art , Loss , Horse

“The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.”

Robert Frost

" The Ax-Helve http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ax-helve-the/" (1923)
1920s

Evil

“She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when the sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease.”

Robert Frost

" The Silken Tent http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-silken-tent/" (1942)
1940s

Guy , Summer

“Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.”

Robert Frost

For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration also known as Dedictation (1960)
1960s, Dedication (1960)

Courage

“Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.”

Robert Frost

"After Apple Picking
1910s

Sleep

“The little graveyard where my people are!
So small the window frames the whole of it.”

Robert Frost

1910s, Home Burial (1914)

People

“It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height.
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may take something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.”

Robert Frost

"Take Something Like a Star" (1949)
1940s

Star , Time

“Dust always blowing about the town,
Except when sea-fog laid it down,
And I was one of the children told
Some of the blowing dust was gold.”

Robert Frost

1920s, A Peck of Gold (1926)

Children , Sea

“"New order of the ages" did they say?
If it looks none too orderly today,
'Tis a confusion it was ours to start
So in it have to take courageous part.
No one of honest feeling would approve
A ruler who pretended not to love
A turbulence he had the better of.”

Robert Frost

1960s, Dedication (1960)

Love , Age , Feeling , Courage

“But he sent her Good-by,
And said to be good,
And wear her red hood,
And look for skunk tracks
In the snow with an ax —
And do everything!”

Robert Frost

"The Last Word of a Blue Bird
1910s

“People are inexterminable — like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices — that’s us.”

Robert Frost

"London Observer (29 March 1959)
1950s

People

“If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes
Will keep my talk from getting overwise,
I'm not the one for putting off the proof.
Let it be overwhelming, off a roof
And round a corner, blizzard snow for dust,
And blind me to a standstill if it must.”

Robert Frost

Dust in the Eyes http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dust-in-the-eyes/ (1928)
1920s

“How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”

Robert Frost

Lives of the Poets : The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry (1959) by Louis Untermeyer
1950s

Nature , Time

“The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.”

Robert Frost

1910s, My November Guest (1915)

Beauty , Thinking , Tree

“Her crop was a miscellany
When all was said and done,
A little bit of everything,
A great deal of none.”

Robert Frost

"A Girl's Garden
1910s

“The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.”

Robert Frost

" Out, Out — http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/out-out-2/"
1910s

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You´re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you´re two months back in the middle of March.”

Robert Frost

" Two Tramps in Mud-Time http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1934oct06-00156", first published in The Saturday Review of Literature, 6 October 1934, st. 3 http://books.google.com/books?id=AmggAQAAMAAJ&q=%22The+sun+was+warm+but+the+wind+was+chill+You+know+how+it+is+with+an+April+day+When+the+sun+is+out+and+the+wind+is+still+You're+one+month+on+in+the+middle+of+May+But+if+you+so+much+as+dare+to+speak+A+cloud+comes+over+the+sunlit+arch+A+wind+comes+off+a+frozen+peak+And+you're+two+months+back+in+the+middle+of+March%22&pg=PA156#v=onepage
1930s

Sun