Robert Frost Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

  Robert Frost

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

• Earth would soon
  Be uninhabitable as the moon.
  What for that matter had it ever been?
  Who advised man to come and live therein?

  Robert Frost

  Moon, Men, Earth

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

• A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Men, Soul And Body

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

• (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
  Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
  And go along with you ere you lose sight
  Of what you came for and become like me,
  
  Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
  How love burns through the Putting in the Seed
  On through the watching for that early birth
  When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
  
  The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
  Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

  Robert Frost

  Weed, Spring, Passion

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

• But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Summer, Air

  Robert Frost (2016). “Promises to keep: Poems. Gedichte”, p.168, C.H.Beck

• I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Fate, Wish

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

• GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?

  Robert Frost

  Running, Light, Color

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

• The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

  Robert Frost

  Hurt, Long, Weight

  Robert Frost, Robert Newdick (1932). “Robert Frost”

• Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Earth

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

• Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Real, Heart

  Robert Frost, “Fireflies In The Garden”

• Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

  Robert Frost

  Earth, Spirit, Heroic

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.40, Everyman's Library

• Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

• The best way to hate is the worst.
  'Tis to find what the hated need,
  Never mind of what actual worth,
  And wipe that out of the earth.
  Let them die of unsatisfied greed.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Greed, Mind

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

• What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

  Robert Frost

  Birth Life, Earth, Birth

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

• I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

  Robert Frost

  Earth, Get Away

  "Birches" l. 48 (1916)

• Let's get my incantation right:
  "I wish I may, I wish I might"
  Give earth another satellite.

  Robert Frost

  Giving, Poetry, Wish

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

• Love has earth to which she clings.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Earth

  Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.84, Penguin

• loosely bound
  By countless silken ties of love and thought
  To everything on earth the compass round

  Robert Frost

  Love, Ties, Earth

  Robert Frost (1943). “A Witness Tree”

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