01c. 1918 ADLovers, forget your love,And list the love of these,She a window flower,And he a winter breeze.Robert Frost / quote ↗
02c. 1918 ADI have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song.Robert Frost / quote ↗
03c. 1918 ADMore than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.Robert Frost / quote ↗
04c. 1918 ADSo was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.Robert Frost / quote ↗
06c. 1918 ADThe farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in self-development. I think a person has to be withdrawn into himself to gather inspiration so that he is somebody when he comes out again among folks–when he “comes to market’ with himself. He learns that he’s got to be almost wastefully alone.Robert Frost / quote ↗
07c. 1918 ADIt looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...Robert Frost / quote ↗
08c. 1918 ADThe ArmfulFor every parcel I stoop down to seizeI lose some other off my arms and knees,And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,Extremes too hard to comprehend at. onceYet nothing I should care to leave behind.With all I have to hold with hand and mindAnd heart, if need be, I will do my best.To keep their building balanced at my breast.I crouch down to prevent them as they fall;Then sit down in the middle of them all.I had to drop the armful in the roadAnd try to stack them in a better load.Robert Frost / quote ↗
09c. 1918 ADI hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.Robert Frost / quote ↗
10c. 1918 ADAn idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.Robert Frost / quote ↗
11c. 1918 ADBy faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.Robert Frost / quote ↗
12c. 1918 ADThere should be more or less of a jumble in your head or on your note paper after the first time and even after the second. Much that you will think of in connection will come to nothing and be wasted. But some of it ought to go together under one idea. That idea is the thing to write on and write into the title at the head of your paper… One idea and a few subordinate ideas — [the trick is] to have those happen to you as you read and catch them — not let them escape you… The sidelong glance is what you depend on. You look at your author but you keep the tail of your eye on what is happening over and above your author in your own mind and nature.Robert Frost / quote ↗
13c. 1918 ADI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also greatRobert Frost / quote ↗
14c. 1918 ADFire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.Robert Frost / quote ↗
18c. 1918 ADPart of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poured softly in her lap. She sawAnd spread her apron to it. She put out her handAmong the harp-like morning-glory strings,Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves,As if she played unheard the tendernessThat wrought on him beside her in the night.Robert Frost / quote ↗
19c. 1918 ADNo tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.Robert Frost / quote ↗
21c. 1918 ADAnd on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but holdAnd freshen in this air of withering sweetness;Robert Frost / quote ↗
