H.Q. Frost Quotes

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

You don't have to echo my feelings, Mencheres, but you can't talk me out of them either. I love you" Her smile was wry. "Deal with it.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

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

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

You can have all of me, I silently told him, but I'm taking all of you in return.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.