Robert Frost
10 quotes
“There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. Mowing”
“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. Mowing”
“I do not see why I should e'er turn back , Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew”
“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. My November Guest”
“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. My November Guest”
“Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: She's glad the birds are gone away, She's glad her simple worsted gray Is silver now with clinging mist. My November Guest”
“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 November Guest”
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching”
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Letter to Louis Untermeyer”
“It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching. Letter to Sidney Cox”