5 Robert Frost Quotes on Beauty

Robert Frost quotes on beauty

20. Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

22. Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue.

102. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

146. My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

153. The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

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