Quotes from Robert Frost

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

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.

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 goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

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

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through