Top 39 John Frost Quotes
#1. I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.
Robert Williams Buchanan
#2. Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on West-Running Brook.
Joseph Brodsky
#3. David Frost: It's all right. He wants me to do this. To finish him off.
John Birt: What?
David Frost: He wants the wilderness.
Peter Morgan
#4. What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?
John Greenleaf Whittier
#5. Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.
Diane Di Prima
#6. The tints of autumn ... a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#7. It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
John Burroughs
#8. You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.
John Irving
#9. Day and night,
Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
John Milton
#10. This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
John Muir
#11. If this was a dick measuring contest, I found myself thinking numbly, then I was Pee Wee and she was John Holmes.
Jeaniene Frost
#12. All day the darkness and the cold
Upon my heart have lain
Like shadows on the winter sky
Like frost upon the pane
John Greenleaf Whittier
#13. I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.
Jay Parini
#14. The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience.
Elisabeth Elliot
#15. What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade
Alfie Kohn
#16. My dear boy, " Miss Frost said sharply. "My dear boy, please don't put a label on me - don't make a category before you get to know me!
John Irving
#17. On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
John Keats
#18. What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
George Eliot
#19. Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
George Santayana
#20. gloomy, pensive, discontented temper This melancholy flatters, but unmans you; What is it else but penury of soul, A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind? - JOHN DRYDEN AT
Henry Hitchings
#21. I had acquired an undeniable mystique - if only to the Bancroft butt-room boys. Don't forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys - even if the older woman has a penis!
John Irving
#22. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
John Cage
#23. Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.
John Burroughs
#24. December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory ...
John Geddes
#25. Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet.
Ben Marcus
#27. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
William Shakespeare
#28. What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my writing. What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever "protected" anyone? For whom had I truly been worthwhile?
John Irving
#29. The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.
Robert Frost
#30. I will attract into my life what I am, not what I want.
Wayne Dyer
#31. Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.
John Gay
#32. Suggested Reading Louis Bayard, The Black Tower; Sarah Blake, Grange House; F. G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls; Michael Cox, The Glass of Time; Mark Frost, The List of Seven; John Harwood, The Ghost Writer; Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale.
Susan Hill
#33. The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#35. I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.
Bob Dylan
#37. If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#38. Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
John Dryden
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