It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert FrostNo tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert FrostBut he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
Robert FrostKeats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)
Robert Frost