Robert Frost Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
  Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
  And that they may be is the only prayer
  Worth praying. May my sacrifice
  Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Prayer, War

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

• I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  Climbing, White, Snow

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

• Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

  Robert Frost

  Giving, Heaven, Glimpse

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

• My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
  Toward heaven still,
  And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
  Beside it, and there may be two or three
  Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
  But I am done with apple-picking now.
  Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
  The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

  Robert Frost

  Fall, Sleep, Winter

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.94, Coyote Canyon Press

• 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

• Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

  Robert Frost

  Play, Heaven, Needs

  Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem (1992). “Robert Frost: Seasons”, Mjf Books

• Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Glasses, Broken

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.44, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

• In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Heaven, Ifs

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