It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
Nature is always hinting at us. - Robert Frost
Nature is always hinting at us.
- Robert Frost
The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing. - Robert Frost
The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and … - Robert Frost
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and …
I am not a teacher. I am an awakener. - Robert Frost
I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. - Robert Frost
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired. - Robert Frost
For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. - Robert Frost
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. - Robert Frost
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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