All ROBERT FROST Quotes about “Books”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”
“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”
“I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.”
“I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.”
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
“A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look”
“A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look”
“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”
“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”
“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”
“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”

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