North of Boston
Robert Frost
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.”
“He moves in darkness as it seems to me Not of woods only and the shade of trees.”
“A man must partly give up being a man With women-folk.”
“He is all pine and I am apple orchard.”
“I sha'n't catch up in this world, anyway. I'd rather you'd not go unless you must.”
“He never got up high enough to see. That's why I don't advise your trying this side. He tried this side. I've always meant to go And look myself, but you know how it is: It doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain You've worked around the foot of all your life.”
“Spring is the mischief in me”
“Spare me the setting of my fate to music.”
“I had for my winter evening walk- No one at all with whom to talk, But I had the cottages in a row Up to their shining eyes in snow. And I thought I had the folk within: I had the sound of a violin; I had a glimpse through curtain laces Of youthful forms and youthful faces. I had such company outward bound. I went till there were no cottages found. I turned and repented, but coming back I saw no window but that was black. Over the snow my creaking feet Disturbed the slumbering village street Like profanation, by your leave, At ten o'clock of a winter eve.”
“Friends make pretense of following to the grave, But before one is in it, their minds are turned And making the best of their way back to life And living people, and things they understand.”
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nature, winter, grief, division, cowardice, towns, death, poems, life, spring, darkness, mischief, poetry, woods, the-mountain, walls, solitude
