H.Q. Frost Quotes

Let me be the one To do what is done.

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

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

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

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

I am one who has been acquainted with the night

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

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

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.

From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.

I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.

I don't like it when people don't act on their words.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

I would not come in.I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.