Robert Lee Frost frasi celebri
Robert Lee Frost Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Da The Lesson for Today, citato in A.a. V.v., Antologia della critica americana del Novecento, a cura di Morton Dauwen Zabel, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 1962, p. 79 http://books.google.it/books?id=A9XEvLggfz8C&pg=PA79.
Origine: Citato nel film Una canzone per Bobby Long (2004): «Se un epitaffio dovesse raccontare la mia storia, | ne avrei uno breve già pronto | sulla mia lapide: | ho avuto una lite d'amore con il mondo.»
Origine: Citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, marzo 1973.
“Il modo migliore per venirne fuori è sempre buttarsi dentro.”
da A Servant to Servants
“La tua casa è quel posto dove, se ci devi andare, sono costretti a farti entrare.”
da The Death of the Hired Man
Origine: Citato in Vladimiro Cajoli, Imparare il futuro, La Fiera Letteraria, 23 febbraio 1967, traduzione di Giovanni Giudici.
Origine: Citato in Elémire Zolla, La nube del telaio, Ragione e irrazionalità tra Oriente e Occidente, Mondadori, Milano, Oscar saggi 1998<sup>1</sup>, p. 115. ISBN 88-04-44242-5
Robert Lee Frost: Frasi in inglese
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.”
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261
General sources
Variante: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Variante: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.
“I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.”
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
Variante: And miles to go before I sleep.
Contesto: 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.
St. 1
Origine: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
Variante: Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.”
"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
Variante: I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
" The Secret Sits http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-secret-sits/" (1942)
1940s
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Variante: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
"Forgive, O Lord," In the Clearing (1962)
First published in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin (12 November 1960), p. 157 http://books.google.com/books?id=9J_lAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Forgive+O+Lord+my+little+jokes+on+Thee+And+I'll+forgive+Thy+great+big+one+on+me%22&pg=PA157#v=onepage
1960s
Variante: Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Origine: Poem "The Road Not Taken"
Contesto: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
1910s