Frost Quotes - Page 6

• The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Past, Fields

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Rain, Boys

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• It was (Nick Frost's) first-ever bedroom scene and my first-ever bedroom scene...not that we were actually doing much, but we did have to lie sort of semi-nude under the sheets. And he was incredibly sort of vibrant and outgoing, but then he suddenly got very, like, 'I'm engaged and I'm getting married!' And I was, 'Okay, that's good. I just won't be touching you, then!'

  Talulah Riley

  Lying, Touching You, Firsts

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• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?

  Hafez

  Jobs, People, Worry

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• I am the King of Frost Giants. And if you've seen any of the Frost Giants, you know that I am, of course, the Napoleon of Frost Giants. We've got some massive, fabulous guys who dwarf me and come in at around eight-and-a-half feet, nine feet. But, no. Can't you tell by the commanding presence? I am the boss.

  Colm Feore

  Kings, Feet, Dwarves

  Source: collider.com

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• In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Winter, Order, Years

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter I, Section 6), circa 15 BC.

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• Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn't give public readings very often, certainly not - there was no circuit of schools.

  Billy Collins

  Believe, Reading, School

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, White, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.587, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
  That Time upon her angel brow should set
  His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
  Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
  The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
  Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.

  Isaac McLellan

  Time, Eye, Angel

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Spring, Flower

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Rain, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, North Atlantic Books

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• Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.151

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• Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

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• In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Being Strong, Exercise, Lazy

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.263

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• All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Taken, Play, Pieces

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VII, Section 2,

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• I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

  Dick Cavett

  Kids, Advice, Interviews

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2006.

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• The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Rome, Snow

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.229

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• Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Summer, Heart

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• When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

  Eric Idle

  Three, Week, Guinea

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)

  Randall Jarrell

  Cutting, Artist, People

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 29), 1955.

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• Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

  Horace Mann

  Spring, Rain, Book

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.17

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• The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)

  Katherine Catmull

  Grief, Flames, Sea

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• Straight up from this road
  Away from the fitted particles of frost
  Coating the hull of each chick pea,
  And the stiff archer bug making its way
  In the morning dark, toe hair by toe hair,
  Up the stem of the trillim,
  Straight up through the sky above this road right now,
  The galaxies of the Cygnus A cluster
  Are colliding with each other in a massive swarm
  Of interpenetrating and exploding catastrophes.
  I try to remember that.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Morning, Archer, Dark

  Pattiann Rogers (2014). “The Expectations of Light”, p.35, Princeton University Press

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• O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Fall, Heart, Autumn

  James Whitcomb Riley (1895). “The Days Gone by and Other Poems”

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• Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even - "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.

  Randall Jarrell

  Reading, Air, Faithful

  "No Other Book: Selected Essays". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "To the Laodiceans", p. 21, 1999.

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