I have wished a bird would fly away, Robert Frost More Quotes by Robert Frost More Quotes From 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. Robert Frost distinctionbaseballwriting Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. Robert Frost acceptancelifefall Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. Robert Frost writingphilosophyart The only way round is through. Robert Frost wisdomworkway Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Robert Frost pitchingpoetrybaseball The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive. Robert Frost lovelifelying 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 hintsapplesnature Don't be an agnostic. Be something. Robert Frost agnosticadvice What we live by we die by. Robert Frost dieslive-byinspirational Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. Robert Frost bosslonelymen The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Robert Frost journeytreethinking Earth would soon Robert Frost moonearthmen You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more. Robert Frost lostlittlesmean God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden Robert Frost flowerhomechildren If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on. Robert Frost i-have-learnedthings-in-lifegoes-on Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost griefflowereden Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Robert Frost prayerwarlife A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost tolerancepoliticalmen I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Robert Frost climbingwhitesnow Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain. Robert Frost painrainwinter
