Quote

Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

Robert Frost

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Soul
Great
Heart
Derivation
Courage
Fear

More quotes by Robert Frost

Image
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost
Image
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost
Image
He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
Robert Frost
Image
Create and stir other people to create.
Robert Frost
Image
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Robert Frost
Image
The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
Robert Frost
Image
... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
Robert Frost
Image
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost
Image
A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
Robert Frost
Image
It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
Robert Frost
Image
Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
Robert Frost
Image
The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
Robert Frost
Image
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
Robert Frost
Image
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Robert Frost
Image
Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
Robert Frost
Image
Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
Robert Frost
Image
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost
Image
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
Robert Frost
Image
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
Robert Frost
Image
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost