8 Robert Frost Quotes on Memory

Robert Frost quotes on memory

39. No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard, Or keeps the end from being hard. Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!

40. The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.

66. I always have felt strange when we came home To the dark house after so long an absence, And the key rattled loudly into place Seemed to warn someone to be getting out At one door as we entered at another.

75. The birds that came to it through the air At broken windows flew out and in, Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh From too much dwelling on what has been.

81. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

97. The little graveyard where my people are! So small the window frames the whole of it.

110. Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather, There is a house that is no more a house Upon a farm that is no more a farm And in a town that is no more a town. The road there, if you'll let a guide direct you Who only has at heart your getting lost, May seem as if it should have been a quarry - Great monolithic knees the former town Long since gave up pretense of keeping covered. And there's a story in a book about it:

125. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday... but never remembers her age.