The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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 am not a teacher. I am an awakener. - Robert Frost
I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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 …
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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