8 Robert Frost Quotes on Growth

Robert Frost quotes on growth

16. I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

77. Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

96. She let him look, sure that he wouldn't see, Blind creature; and awhile he didn't see. But at last he murmured, 'Oh,' and again, 'Oh.'

111. As for the woods' excitement over you That sends light rustle rushes to their leaves, Charge that to upstart inexperience. Where were they all not twenty years ago? They think too much of having shaded out A few old pecker-fretted apple trees.

124. A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

135. Education is...hanging around until you've caught on.

141. I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

151. The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.