Robert Frost Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

  Robert Frost

  God, Eye, Cutting

• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, People, Missing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

• What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

  Robert Frost

  Teaching, Eye, Sight

• Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Butterfly, Eye

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.271, Everyman's Library

• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Eye, Night

  "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

• There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Motivation, Heart

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.301, Harvard University Press

• Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Evil, Looks

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

• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Eye, Night

  "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

• When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Robert Frost (1949). “Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949”, New York : H. Holt

• My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Eye, Sight

• Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate.
  Contemplate glory. There will be a light.
  Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Light, Glory

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

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