Frost quotes
63 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation."
"Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?"
"February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter."
"On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence."
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost."
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"Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn."
"Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!"
"Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs."
"Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it"
"Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost."
"Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost."
"The third day comes a frost, a killing frost."
"I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me."
"The first and last frosts are the worst."
"Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost."
"I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost."
"And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost."
"Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution"
"The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust."
"Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost."
"The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost."
"He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after."
"Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost."
"Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time"
"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost"
