Robert Lee Frost citáty strana 6

„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]

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

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

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

Robert Frost kniha Collected Poems of Robert Frost

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Varianta: The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Zdroj: Collected Poems of Robert Frost

“The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed.
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged -- though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”

Robert Frost Birches

General sources
Zdroj: "Birches" (1920)
Kontext: I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.”

Varianta: The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.
Zdroj: The Poetry of Robert Frost

“Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.”

“To be social is to be forgiving.”

Zdroj: The Poetry of Robert Frost

“It must be the brook
Can trust itself to go by contraries
The way I can with you — and you with me —
Because we’re — we’re — I don’t know
What we are.”

“All the dust the wind blew high
Appeared like god in the sunset sky,
But I was one of the children told
Some of the dust was really gold.”

"West-running Brook
1920s

“The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be —
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.”

1920s, A Peck of Gold (1926)

“My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”

"Neither Out Far nor In Deep
1930s

“And this is no aristocratic joke
At the expense of negligible folk.
We see how seriously the races swarm
In their attempts at sovereignty and form.
They are our wards we think to some extent
For the time being and with their consent,
To teach them how Democracy is meant.”

St. 2
1920s, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

“He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.”

1960s, Dedication (1960)

“By good rights I ought not to have so much
Put on me, but there seems no other way.
Len says one steady pull more ought to do it.
He says the best way out is always through.
And I agree to that, or in so far
As that I can see no way out but through —
Leastways for me — and then they’ll be convinced.”

St. 3
1920s, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

“Wind goes from farm to farm in wave on wave,
But carries no cry of what is hoped to be.
There may be little or much beyond the grave,
But the strong are saying nothing until they see.”

A Servant To Servants (1914)
1910s

“Summoning artists to participate
In the august occasions of the state
Seems something artists ought to celebrate.
Today is for my cause a day of days.”

"The Strong Are Saying Nothing
1930s

“We've looked and looked, but after all where are we?
Do we know any better where we are,
And how it stands between the night tonight
And a man with a smoky lantern chimney?
How different from the way it ever stood?”

"For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration" (1960), the poem is also known as "Dedication". Frost had planned to read "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration" at John F. Kennedy's imauguration, but the blinding light from the sun and snow prompted him to recite "The Gift Outright" from memory. Source: Tuten, Nancy Lewis; Zubizarreta, John (2001). The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 9780313294648
General sources
Varianta: Summoning artists to participate
In the august occasions of the state
Seems something artists ought to celebrate.

“Something inspires the only cow of late
To make no more of a wall than an open gate,
And think no more of wall-builders than fools.”

The Star-Splitter
1920s

“'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."
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.”

" The Cow in Apple-Time http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cow-in-apple-time-the/" 1910s