Quote

One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

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
Last
Till
Ever
Answer
Everything
Lies
Nothing
Depends
Make
Answers
Recurring
Would
Within
Presents
Life
Lying
Repetition
Lasts
Twice

More quotes by Robert Frost

Image
He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost
Image
Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
Image
Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
Robert Frost
Image
Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
Robert Frost
Image
Life is tons of discipline.
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
We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
Image
Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
Robert Frost
Image
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost
Image
Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
Robert Frost
Image
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
Robert Frost
Image
I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
Robert Frost
Image
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost
Image
We ran as if to meet the moon.
Robert Frost
Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Robert Frost
Image
I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
Robert Frost
Image
Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
Robert Frost
Image
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
Robert Frost