Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. - Robert Frost
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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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