All ROBERT FROST Quotes about “Grace”

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”
“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 donâ€™t you say what you mean?" 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.”
“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 donâ€™t you say what you mean?" 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.”
“I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.”
“I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.”
“The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.”
“The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.”

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