Роберт Фрост: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 6)
Роберт Фрост было американский поэт. Цитаты на английском языке.“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994) <!-- cited either to "Comment" or as a comment, this may have been attributed to Frost at least as early as 1962-->
General sources
Контексте: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
An earlier unattributed version of this quip appeared in What Man Can Make of Man (1942) by William Ernest Hocking: "He lends himself to the gibe that he is 'so very liberal, that he cannot bring himself to take his own side in a quarrel.'" http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_liberal_is_a_man_too_broad_minded_to_take_his_own_side_in_a_quarrel/
Источник: As quoted by Guy Davenport (The Geography of the Imagination) at page x in A Liberal Education http://books.google.de/books?id=Dly0RgUc0YcC&pg=PR10&dq=A+liberal+is+a+man+too+broadminded+to+take+his+own+side+in+a+quarrel.&hl=de&sa=X&ei=Xt_OUZSGJcjLswaApYDQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=A%20liberal%20is%20a%20man%20too%20broadminded%20to%20take%20his%20own%20side%20in%20a%20quarrel.&f=false by Abbott Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Tide Pool Press, 2010).
Источник: As quoted by Harvey Shapiro “Story of the Poem”, 15 January 1961, New York (NY) Times, Section SM page 6 https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/15/archives/story-of-the-poem-the-story-of-the-poem.html?searchResultPosition=1
“Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
"The Black Cottage" (1914)
1910s
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
As quoted in Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) by Elizabeth S. Sergeant, Ch. 18
1960s
Вариант: Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
“It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Вариант: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Контексте: It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 419
Undated
“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
Вариант: Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
As quoted in Vogue (14 March 1963)
1960s
Вариант: Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.