Роберт Фрост: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 8)
Роберт Фрост было американский поэт. Цитаты на английском языке.
Letter to Sydney Cox (3 January 1937), quoted in Robert Frost : The Trial By Existence (1960) by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, p. 351, and Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship (1981) by William Richard Evans, p. 223
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Контексте: Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second. My mouth is sealed for the duration of my stay here. I'm not even going to write letters around to explain to collectors my not having had any Christmas card this year. I'm not going to explain anything personal any more.
“Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”
"Birches" (1920)
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Источник: Swinger of Birches
Контексте: I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.”
"Fire and Ice" (1923)
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Контексте: Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
"Two Tramps in Mud Time" (1936), st. 9
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“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Контексте: Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country. For myself the originality need be no more than the freshness of a poem run in the way I have described: from delight to wisdom. The figure is the same as for love. Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. Its most precious quality will remain its having run itself and carried away the poet with it. Read it a hundred times: it will forever keep its freshness as a petal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Вариант: The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Источник: Collected Poems of Robert Frost
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
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Источник: "Birches" (1920)
Контексте: I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Вариант: The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.
Источник: The Poetry of Robert Frost
“Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.”
Источник: The Poetry of Robert Frost
St. 2
1920s, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)