Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert FrostRead
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a longing for the beauty and pleasure found in nature, specifically in orchards during different times of the day.
In this quote, Robert Frost evokes a deep appreciation for the pleasures of nature, particularly the enchanting experience of being in an orchard filled with white blossoms. The contrast between the vibrant beauty experienced during the day and the mysterious, ethereal quality of the orchard at night highlights how nature can invoke powerful emotions and stimulate our senses, creating a profound connection with the environment.
In practice
In a speech about environmental conservation, to emphasize the beauty of nature.
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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
'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' _x000D_ _x000D_ I don't suppose the water's changed at all. _x000D_ _x000D_ You and I know enough to know it's warm _x000D_ _x000D_ Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. _x000D_ _x000D_ But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.
The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.
Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
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