“I was out for stars;
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn't been.”
" Come In http://plagiarist.com/poetry/691" (1942), st. 4, 5 <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Zdroj: The Poetry of Robert Frost <br class="br">Kontext: p>Far in the pillared dark<br>Thrush music went —<br>Almost like a call to come in<br>To the dark and lament.But no, I was out for stars;<br>I would not come in.<br>I meant not even if asked;<br>And I hadn't been.</p
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
Address at Milton Academy, Massachusetts (17 May 1935)
1930s
Varianta: Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
" Once by the Pacific http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-by-the-pacific-2/" (1928) <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Kontext: You could not tell, and yet it looked as if<br>The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,<br>The cliff in being backed by continent;<br>It looked as if a night of dark intent<br>Was coming, and not only a night, an age.<br>Someone had better be prepared for rage.<br>There would be more than ocean-water broken<br>Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
Zdroj: Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949
“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”
BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis (13 September 1957); transcripts published in "It Takes a Hero to Make a Poem" in the Claremont Quarterly (Spring 1958) http://www.frostfriends.org/FFL/Periodicals/Interview-lewis.html <br class="br">1950s
"A Servant to Servants" (1914)
General sources
Varianta: The best way out is always through.