Robert Lee Frost citáty strana 4

„Běželi jsme, jako kdybychom se měli setkat s měsícem.“

„Kdybychom se nemohli smát, všichni bychom se zbláznili.“

„Poezie je to, co se ztratí v překladu.“

„Štěstí vynahradí výškou to, co chybí v délce.“

„Kolik věcí se vám musí stát předtím, než se vám něco přihodí?“

„Báseň začíná jako hrudka v hrdle, smysl pro nesprávné, touha za domovem, láska.“

„Odpoledne ví to, o čem ráno nikdy nemělo ani ponětí.“

„Srdce nezná žádnou větší oddanost
než být břehem oceánu -
Udržovat křivku jedné pozice,
Počítat nekonečné opakování.“

„Domov je to místo, kde tě musí přijmout, když už tam musíš jít.“

„Už nebudu vysvětlovat nic osobního.“

„Pokud vám společnost dostatečně vyhovuje, říkejte tomu svoboda.“

„Mozek je zázračný orgán; začíná pracovat ve chvíli, kdy vstanete z postele, a nepřestane, dokud nedorazíte do úřadu.“

„Všechny metafory jsou nedokonalé, a to je na nich to nejhezčí.“

Zdroj: [Barrow, John D., w:John D. Barrow, Jan Novotný, Teorie všeho, Mladá fronta, Praha, 1999, 247, 82-204-0602-6]
Zdroj: [Lilienfeld, Scott O., Arkowitz, Hal, Uncovering "Brainscams", Scientific American, 2008-10-31, 2015-01-01]

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

Zdroj: [Sobotka, Petr, jplenio, Ralf Kunze, Meteor o jaderné nehodě, přírodní modré barvě a mistrech čichu, http://dvojka.rozhlas.cz/meteor-o-jaderne-nehode-prirodni-modre-barve-a-mistrech-cichu-8440701, Věda | Meteor, Český rozhlas Dvojka, Český rozhlas, 2021, březen, 6, 2021-04-11, čas 18 min : 19 sec, česky]

Robert Lee Frost: Citáty anglicky

“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.”

" Dust of Snow http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173526" (1923) <br class="br">General sources

“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.”

Varianta: Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.

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

Letter to Louis Untermeyer (1 January 1916)
1910s

“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.”

Varianta: Come over the hills and far with me
And be my love in the rain.
Zdroj: Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949

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

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

1910s
Zdroj: "The Road Not Taken", st. 4 (1916)

“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.”

As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994) 
General sources
Kontext: 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.

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

An earlier unattributed version of this quip appeared in What Man Can Make of Man (1942) by William Ernest Hocking: "He lends himself to the gibe that he is 'so very liberal, that he cannot bring himself to take his own side in a quarrel.'" http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_liberal_is_a_man_too_broad_minded_to_take_his_own_side_in_a_quarrel/ <br class="br">Zdroj: As quoted by Guy Davenport (The Geography of the Imagination) at page x in A Liberal Education http://books.google.de/books?id=Dly0RgUc0YcC&pg=PR10&dq=A+liberal+is+a+man+too+broadminded+to+take+his+own+side+in+a+quarrel.&hl=de&sa=X&ei=Xt_OUZSGJcjLswaApYDQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=A%20liberal%20is%20a%20man%20too%20broadminded%20to%20take%20his%20own%20side%20in%20a%20quarrel.&f=false by Abbott Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Tide Pool Press, 2010). <br class="br">Zdroj: As quoted by Harvey Shapiro “Story of the Poem”, 15 January 1961, New York (NY) Times, Section SM page 6 https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/15/archives/story-of-the-poem-the-story-of-the-poem.html?searchResultPosition=1

“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.”

"Reluctance", st. 4 (1913)
1910s

“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.”

"The Black Cottage" (1914)
1910s

“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.”

As quoted in Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) by Elizabeth S. Sergeant, Ch. 18
1960s
Varianta: Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

Ten Mills : Not All There
1920s, Further Range (1926)

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

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Varianta: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Kontext: It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

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

As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 419
Undated

“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.”

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

“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.”

As quoted in Vogue (14 March 1963)
1960s
Varianta: 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.