“Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.”
"The Self-seeker" (1914)
1910s
Robert Frost: 265 citations0 J'aime
Robert Frost: Citations en anglais
" An Old Man's Winter Night http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-old-man-s-winter-night-2/" <br class="br">1960s
" The Need of Being Versed in Country Things http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/need-of-being-versed-in-country-things-the/" <br class="br">1920s
"Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
1960s
“I stopped my song and almost heart,
For any eye is an evil eye
That looks in onto a mood apart.”
" A Mood Apart http://www.cod.edu/dept/kiesback/lizkies/frost.htm#mood" (1947) <br class="br">1940s
"The Master Speed"; the last line is Inscribed beneath his wife's name on the gravestone of Frost and his wife, Elinor
1930s
“Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.”
A Masque of Mercy (1947)
1940s
That’s what at the end of a war
We always say not who won it,
Or what it was foughten for.
"Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
General sources
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. <br class="br">" 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) <br class="br">General sources
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
St. 4
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
Think of it, talk like that at such a time!
What had how long it takes a birch to rot
To do with what was in the darkened parlor?
You couldn't care! The nearest friends can go
With anyone to death, comes so far short
They might as well not try to go at all.
Home Burial (1915)
As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994)
Undated
Source: 1930s, The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Robert Frost Mending Wall
Source: 1910s, Mending Wall (1914)
"Into My Own", st. 4 (1913)
General sources
" Come In http://plagiarist.com/poetry/691" (1942), st. 4, 5 <br class="br">General sources
