Frost Quotes - Page 10

• Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Country, Fall, Autumn

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• A ward, and still in bonds, one day
  I stole abroad;
  It was high spring, and all the way
  Primrosed and hung with shade;
  Yet was it frost within,
  And surly winds
  Blasted my infant buds, and sin
  Like clouds eclipsed my mind.

  Henry Vaughan

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Media, White

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.69, Verso

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• Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

  Clara Barton

  Growth, Relief, Shelter

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• With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Rose, Vices, Rising

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.24, Courier Dover Publications

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• If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine,
  shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

  James Dickey

  Pieces, Toilets, Pipe

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• Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough.

  Martina Cole

  Brilliant, Enough, I Can

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• We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Wind, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1502, Delphi Classics

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• I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Doors, Decision

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• Victory comes late--
  And is held low to freezing lips--
  Too rapt with frost
  To take it

  Emily Dickinson

  Victory, Lips, Lows

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.357, Harvard University Press

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• Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Mean, Simple

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• Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Good Morning, Summer, Believe

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• Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Adversity, Remember, Goodness

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.44, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ice, Sky

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

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• Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Heart, Fire, Snow

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.238

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• There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.

  Iris Murdoch

  Summer, God, Mother

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• Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

  Zhuangzi

  Horse, Real, Wind

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

  Anne Michaels

  Men, Glasses, Secret

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.114, Emblem Editions

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• Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Sky, Tree

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• Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

  Stephanie Mills

  Prayer, Cat, Glasses

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.30, Island Press

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• My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

  John Phillips

  Time, Winter, Long

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• Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

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• The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of wood smoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.

  James Carlos Blake

  Morning, Stars, Distance

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• The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rain, Evil, Enemy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.191, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

  Tanith Lee

  Stars, Night, Rocks

  Tanith Lee (2016). “DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE (Special Edition)”, p.151, BookRix

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