Mountain Interval Quotes

“They are that that talks of going
But never gets away.”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“I'm drunk-nonsensical tired out.”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“RANGE-FINDING The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird’s nest Before it stained a single human breast. The stricken flower bent double and so hung. And still the bird revisited her young. A butterfly its fall had dispossessed A moment sought in air his flower of rest, Then lightly stooped to it and fluttering clung.   On the bare upland pasture there had spread O’ernight ’twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread And straining cables wet with silver dew. A sudden passing bullet shook it dry. The indwelling spider ran to greet the fly, But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew.”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“My woods...the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires.”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“Love has earth to which she clings
With hills and circling arms about
Wall within wall to shut fear out.
But Thought has need of no such things,
For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.

On snow and sand and turf, I see
Where Love has left a printed trace
With straining in the world's embrace.
And such is Love and glad to be.
But Thought has shaken his ankles free.

Thought cleaves the interstellar gloom
And sits in Sirius' disc all night,
Till day makes him retrace his flight,
With smell of burning on every plume,
Back past the sun to an earthly room.

His gains in heaven are what they are.
Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star.”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“Sudden and swift and light as that
The ties gave,
And he learned of finalities
Besides the grave.”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“But all We did that day was mingle great and small Footprints in summer dust as if we drew The figure of our being less than two But more than one as yet.”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in the woods & I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference by”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”
― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval