If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry. Robert Frost More Quotes by Robert Frost More Quotes From Robert Frost But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything 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 airsummerlove We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone. Robert Frost oceanbusinesscountry People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us. Robert Frost cracksbedpeople The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore. Robert Frost bookstorestownsfirsts I have wished a bird would fly away, Robert Frost keysdoorssong When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit. Robert Frost horsewallcharacter The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past. Robert Frost collegepastschool There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. Robert Frost saying-nothingstronglittles A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more. Robert Frost eighthumorfunny Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow. Robert Frost monthsyesterdaysnow You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad. Robert Frost ethicschancebrave Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. Robert Frost poetrycommonbook Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form. Robert Frost stormwaitingclouds I play better tennis because the court is there. Robert Frost courttennisplay Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom. Robert Frost silencepressurewriting Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God. Robert Frost leftsolitude Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles. Robert Frost goodbye-my-lovebeginnings-and-endsbeginning-middle-and-end An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get. Robert Frost lifeideas End is a gloomy word. Robert Frost gloomyends Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. Robert Frost renewalsettingspoetry
