Home / Quotes / Quote by Robert Frost

Quote by Robert Frost

“Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.”

Quote by Robert Frost

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Work

The poetry of Robert Frost

This book presents a curated selection of Robert Frost's most celebrated works, reflecting his deep engagement with nature, rural life, and the complexities of human experience. Frost's poetry is characterized by its conversational tone, vivid imagery, and philosophical depth, making it a cornerstone of American literature. more

Author

Robert Frost, born on March 26, 1874, and died on January 29, 1963, was one of the most renowned poets of the 20th century in the United States. He is known for his profound philosophy and unique poetic style, which often explores themes such as nature, life, and morality. more

You May Also Like

“Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.”

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!”

Ideas Body Light Faces House Secret Tree Accidents No Idea Splits Blank Bent Preconceptions

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.”

Ifs Mind Dream Lost Left Behinds Tree Land Childhood Conscious Roots Tongue Forests Wander Cried Wounded Scent Left Behind Fragrance Drifting Conscious Mind

Book:100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

“As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.”

Hard Home Imagine Tree Safe Instruments

Book:The next one hundred years: shaping the fate of our living earth

Source: The next one hundred years: shaping the fate of our living earth

“Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.”

Inspiring Tree Youth Protect Spares Forests And Trees

Author:George Pope Morris

“The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.”

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.”

War Sleep Fire Seeing Tree Broken Destruction Branches Sensing Recoil

Author:Kathleen Raine

“You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.”

Years Stills Bigs Night Next Doors Tree Flower Neighbor Over You Shed Honored Dropping Needles Deck Cones Wakes You Pine Trees Arbor Day

Book:Sands of the Well

Source: Sands of the Well

“There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.”

Should May Faces Growth Sun Too Much Tree Garden Grateful Shining Shade Rays Sweat Vegetables Interfere Be Grateful Potatoes Blades Pouring

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.”

Heart Remember Night Left Waiting Gone Tree My Heart Red Rain Dawn December Rain At Night

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow