North of Boston 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.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“He moves in darkness as it seems to me
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“A man must partly give up being a man With women-folk.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“He is all pine and I am apple orchard.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“I sha'n't catch up in this world, anyway. I'd rather you'd not go unless you must.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“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.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.'
'I should have called it
Something you somehow haven't to deserve.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“Spring is the mischief in me”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“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.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“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.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“Spare me the setting of my fate to music.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“We may as well go patiently on with our life, and look elsewhere than to stars and moon and sun for the shocks and changes we need to keep us sane.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“We may as well go patiently on with our life, and look elsewhere than to stars and moon and sun for the shocks and changes we need to keep us sane”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“But the thing of it is, I need to be kept.
There's work enough to do—there's always that;
But behind's behind. The worst that you can do
Is set me back a little more behind.
I shan't catch up in this world, anyway.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“For, dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true.
Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt
It will turn true again, for so it goes.
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish
I could be monarch of a desert land
I could devote and dedicate forever
To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
So desert it would have to be, so walled
By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
No one would covet it or think it worth
The pains of conquering to force change on.
Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly
Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk
Blown over and over themselves in idleness.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“I'll sit and see if that small sailing cloud
Will hit or miss the moon.’

It hit the moon.
Then there were three there, making a dim row,
The moon, the little silver cloud, and she.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day,
I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here.
No, I will go on farther—and we shall see.'
The hard snow held me, save where now and then
One foot went through. The view was all in lines
Straight up and down of tall slim trees”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston