Frost Quotes

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing, Wine, Motion

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
Jeremy Rifkin

Government, Food, United

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
Howard Nemerov

Fake, Real, Said

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Howard Nemerov

Alive, Known, Poet

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
Charles Eastman

Nature, Character, Spiritual

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Walter Pater

Attitude, Sleep, Evening

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Madeleine Stowe

Home, Long, Same

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
Peter Davison

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.
Alan Autry

Fear, Early, Longer

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Anne Stevenson

Young, American, Books

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
Paul Muldoon

Enough, Worked, Brilliant

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
Paul Muldoon

After, Same, Again

After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
Patrick Rothfuss

After, College, Effort

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
Meriwether Lewis

Great, Night, Last

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
Thomas Hood

Nature, Greatest, Artist

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.
Gilbert White

Snow, Deep, Point

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Georg Trakl

Evil, Hard, Black

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