830 Quotes by Robert Frost

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

Monotony? Have we not always had the same stars and the same sky above us, changing only in its shades of blue and gray and purple black? And who shall say that such themes are exhausted? Have we not always had love and passion, war and peace, summer and winter and spring and fall with us? And are these things unable longer to impel us to spiritual variations?

Fortunately, we don’t need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

I am for the artist, who is more alone than he looks. I am not for the reformer, who is always active but usually has nothing to give. The real thing that you do is a lonely thing. And remember the paradox that you become more social in order that you may become more of an individual.

Spare me the setting of my fate to music.

But all We did that day was mingle great and small Footprints in summer dust as if we drew The figure of our being less than two But more than one as yet.

Who would you be, I wonder, by those marks If I had moths to friend as I have flowers?

The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I’d name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi... Leonard Bacon... but it is still too early to assertions. They’re all ‘in the field.’ It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.

I sha’n’t catch up in this world, anyway. I’d rather you’d not go unless you must.