Robert Lee Frost citáty strana 9

„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]

“Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.”

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

“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.”