Robert Frost Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

• I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reflection, Order

• I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.265, Harvard University Press

• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Book, School

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.165, Harvard University Press

• A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

  Robert Frost

  Book, Looks, Breeze

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.496, Harvard University Press

• Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Poetry, Common

• Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Artist, Annoyed

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Essay by Robert Frost, 1939.

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