Frases de Robert Lee Frost

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“En dos palabras puedo resumir cuanto he aprendido acerca de la vida: Sigue adelante.”

“Unos dicen que el mundo sucumbirá en el fuego. Otros que en el hielo. Por lo que yo he probado del deseo, estoy a favor de los que apuestan por el fuego. Pero si por dos veces el mundo pereciera, creo saber suficiente sobre el odio, como para saber que para la destrucción, el hielo también es grande y sería suficiente.”

“El bosque es hermoso, oscuro y profundo. Pero tengo promesas que cumplir, y millas que recorrer antes de dormir. Y millas que recorrer antes de dormir.”

“En un bosque se bifurcaron dos caminos, y yo… Yo tomé el menos transitado. Esto marcó toda la diferencia.”

“El amor es un deseo irresistible de ser irresistiblemente deseado.”

“Dos caminos divergían en el bosque, y tomé el menos transitado. Eso hizo toda la diferencia.”

“Una mitad del mundo está compuesta de gente que tienen algo que decir y no pueden, y la otra de gente que no tienen nada que decir y siguen diciéndolo.”

“Pero tengo promesas que cumplir, y andar mucho camino sin dormir, y andar mucho camino sin dormir.”

“Si la sociedad te queda lo suficientemente cómoda, lo llamas libertad.”

“La mayor parte del cambio en el que creemos que vemos en la vida se debe a las verdades que están en y fuera de favor.”

“Lo que se hace se hace por amor a él, o no se hace en absoluto.”

“Si no pudiéramos reír, todos nos volveríamos locos.”

“El humor es la cobardía más atractiva.”

“Escribir versos libres es como jugar al tenis con la red baja.”

“La felicidad compensa en altura lo que le falta en longitud.”

“Cualquier cosa más que la verdad sería demasiado.”

“Ser el jefe en cualquier lugar es solitario. Ser una jefa en un mundo en su mayoría hombres es especialmente cierto.”

“The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock treeHas given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.”

“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”

“A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

“I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.”

“Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain.”

“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.”

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.”

“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”

“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn”

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”

“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”

“Good fences make good neighbors.”

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?”

“You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”

“Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.”

“What we live by we die by.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

“I turned to speak to God
About the world's despair
But to make bad matters worse
I found God wasn't there.
God turned to speak to me
(Don't anybody laugh)
God found I wasn't there
At least not over half.”

“It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”

“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”

“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.”