Robert Frost: Trending quotes (page 11)

“Have I not walked without an upward look
Of caution under stars that very well
Might not have missed me when they shot and fell?
It was a risk I had to take — and took.”

Robert Frost

"Bravado" (1947)
1940s

Star

“Do you know,
Considering the market, there are more
Poems produced than any other thing?
No wonder poets sometimes have to seem
So much more businesslike than businessmen.
Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.”

Robert Frost New Hampshire

"New Hampshire" (1923)
1920s

“"Don't let him cut my hand off—
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"
So. But the hand was gone already.”

Robert Frost

"Out, Out —"
1910s

Sister

“Now no joy but lacks salt,
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain

Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.”

Robert Frost To Earthward

"To Earthward" (1923), st. 5,6
General sources

Love , Pain , Tear , Joy

“Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air”

Robert Frost

" To Earthward http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-earthward-2/", st. 1 (1923)
1920s

Wedding , Love

“If one by one we counted people out
For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long
To get so we had no one left to live with.
For to be social is to be forgiving.”

Robert Frost

The Star-Splitter
1920s

People , Forgiveness

“And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.”

Robert Frost

"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
Variant: And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Hope

“The nearest friends can go
With anyone to death, comes so far short
They might as well not try to go at all.
No, from the time when one is sick to death,
One is alone, and he dies more alone.
Friends make pretence of following to the grave,
But before one is in it, their minds are turned
And making the best of their way back to life
And living people, and things they understand.”

Robert Frost

"Home Burial" (1914)
1910s

Life , Death , People , Way

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.”

Robert Frost

1910s, Mending Wall (1914)

Love , Sun

“My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."”

Robert Frost

1910s, Mending Wall (1914)

Tree

“A dramatic necessity goes deep into the nature of the sentence. Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic.”

Robert Frost

Preface to A Way Out : A One-act Play (1929)
1920s

Nature

“He would declare and could himself believe
That the birds there in all the garden round
From having heard the daylong voice of Eve
Had added to their own an oversound,
Her tone of meaning but without the words.”

Robert Frost

"Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same
1940s

Bird

“There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.”

Robert Frost

" Mowing http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mowing-2/"
1910s

“And be all plunderers curst.
'The best way to hate is the worst.
'Tis to find what the hated need,
Never mind of what actual worth,
And wipe that out of the earth.
Let them die of unsatisfied greed,
Of unsatisfied love of display,
Of unsatisfied love of the high,
Unvulgar, unsoiled, and ideal.
Let their trappings be taken away.
Let them suffer starvation and die
Of being brought down to the real.”

Robert Frost

"The Vindictives"
1920s, Further Range (1926)

Love , Hate , Way , Suffering

“To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.”

Robert Frost

" The Wood-Pile http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wood-pile-the/"
1910s

“But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To every thing on earth the compass round,
And only by one's going slightly taut
In the capriciousness of summer air
Is of the slightest bondage made aware.”

Robert Frost

"The Silken Tent" (1942)
1940s

Love , Summer

“The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;
New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.”

Robert Frost New Hampshire

"New Hampshire" (1923)
1920s

Mountain

“And then we saw him bolt.
We heard the miniature thunder where he fled,
And we saw him, or thought we saw him, dim and gray,
Like a shadow across instead of behind the flakes.”

Robert Frost

" The Runaway http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/runaway-the/" (1923)
1920s

“I always have felt strange when we came home
To the dark house after so long an absence,
And the key rattled loudly into place
Seemed to warn someone to be getting out
At one door as we entered at another.”

Robert Frost

" The Fear http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fear-the/"
1910s

Home , Housing

“Such was life in the Golden Gate:
Gold dusted all we drank and ate,
And I was one of the children told,
'We all must eat our peck of gold.”

Robert Frost

A Peck of Gold (1926)

Life , Children