Frost Quotes

• Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

  Thomas Hood

  Artist, Icy, Paint

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• Cold indeed, and labor lost:
  Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Winter, Welcome

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1836). “Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.201

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• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Wine, Men

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• What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Winter, Light, Miracle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.370

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• January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,
  A frost-mailed warrior
  striding a shadowy steed of snow.

  Edgar Fawcett

  Eye, Warrior, Snow

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• I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sky, Steel, World

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.120, Penguin

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• I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Snow, Form, Radiant

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• The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Flower, Dew

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.205, Faber & Faber

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• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• All that is gold does not glitter,
  Not all those who wander are lost;
  The old that is strong does not wither,
  Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
  
  From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
  A light from the shadows shall spring;
  Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
  The crownless again shall be king.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Real, Glasses

  "The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sun, Minors

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• Day after day, throughout the winter,
  We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason
  In a world of wind and frost.

  Wallace Stevens

  Determination, Winter, Wind

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.124, Vintage

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• Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

  Margaret George

  Hats, Window, Covered

  Margaret George (2011). “Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles”, p.743, Pan Macmillan

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• Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Government, Gmos, United States

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• Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

  Georg Trakl

  Stars, Air, Evil

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• All day the darkness and the cold
  Upon my heart have lain
  Like shadows on the winter sky
  Like frost upon the pane

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Heart, Winter, Sky

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.141

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• Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Night, Hunting, White

  Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.197, tredition

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• The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Fear, Character

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The first and last frosts are the worst.

  George Herbert

  Lasts, Firsts, Worst

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.179

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• People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Fall, Law, Weather

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• Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

  Paul Muldoon

  People, Icy, Brilliant

  Thumbscrew Interview, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. 1996.

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• We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

  Alan Autry

  Answers, Chill, No Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

  Howard Nemerov

  Fake People, Real, Thinking

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• When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

  Howard Nemerov

  Icy, Alive, Literature

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