The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... In a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Weitere Zitate von Robert Frost
Zum Autor"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?"
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
"Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent."
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
"A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."