Frases de Robert Lee Frost página 9

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

Fuente: "Into My Own", st. 4 (1913).

“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.”

Variante: En dos palabras puedo resumir cuanto he aprendido acerca de la vida: Sigue adelante.
Fuente: "The Death of the Hired Man" (1914).

“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.”

Fuente: "Fuego y hielo".

“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.”

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“La libertad está en ser audaz.”

Robert Lee Frost Frases y Citas

“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.”

Variante: Dos caminos se bifurcaban en un bosque y yo... Yo tomé el menos transitado, y eso hizo toda la diferencia.
Fuente: "The Road Not Taken", 1916.

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

Fuente: "The Death of the Hired Man" (1914).

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

Fuente: "A Servant to Servants" (1914).

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“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.”

Fuente: "The Black Cottage" (1914).

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

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“El humor es la cobardía más atractiva.”

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

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

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“Cualquier cosa más que la verdad sería demasiado.”

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

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“Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.”

Robert Lee Frost: Frases en inglés

“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.”

"The Self-seeker" (1914)
1910s

“All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.”

"West-running Brook
1920s

“That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.”

" An Old Man's Winter Night http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-old-man-s-winter-night-2/" 1960s

“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.”

"Tree at My Window" (1928)
1920s

““Well, who begun it?”
That’s what at the end of a war
We always say not who won it,
Or what it was foughten for.”

" The Need of Being Versed in Country Things http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/need-of-being-versed-in-country-things-the/" 1920s

“I stopped my song and almost heart,
For any eye is an evil eye
That looks in onto a mood apart.”

"Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
1960s

“Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She’s glad the birds are gone away,
She’s glad her simple worsted gray
Is silver now with clinging mist.”

" A Mood Apart http://www.cod.edu/dept/kiesback/lizkies/frost.htm#mood" (1947) 1940s

“Till we came to be
There was not a trace
Of a thinking race
Anywhere in space.”

1910s, My November Guest (1915)

“Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.”

"Kitty Hawk
1960s

“Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.”

"The Master Speed"; the last line is Inscribed beneath his wife's name on the gravestone of Frost and his wife, Elinor
1930s

“Hell is a half-filled auditorium. ”

A Masque of Mercy (1947)
1940s

“Well, who begun it?”

“Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?"”

That’s what at the end of a war
We always say not who won it,
Or what it was foughten for.
"Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
General sources

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”

We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct. " Education by Poetry http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/edbypo.html", speech delivered at Amherst College and subsequently revised for publication in the Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly (February 1931) General sources

“'I can repeat the very words you were saying:
"Three foggy mornings and one rainy day
Will rot the best birch fence a man can build."”

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

St. 4
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”

Think of it, talk like that at such a time!
What had how long it takes a birch to rot
To do with what was in the darkened parlor?
You couldn't care! The nearest friends can go
With anyone to death, comes so far short
They might as well not try to go at all.
Home Burial (1915)

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994)
Undated

“The best way out is always through.”

“Accept no one’s definition of you, define yourself.”