Eliot Quote by Robert Frost

“Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.” quote by Robert Frost — Download Open image

“Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings)

More by Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the…

Robert Frost

Image

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

Robert Frost

Image

“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still…

Robert Frost

Image

Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...

Robert Frost

Image

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Robert Frost

Image

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in…

Robert Frost

Image

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

Robert Frost

Image

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that…

Robert Frost

Image

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is,…

Robert Frost

Image

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Robert Frost

Image

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

Robert Frost

Image

The footpath down to the well is healed.

Robert Frost

Image

Explore all 624 Robert Frost quotes

More Eliot quotes

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

William Butler Yeats

Image

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it…

Clive James

Image

I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end.…

Matt Bors

Image

“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a…

George Eliot

Image

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson…

Jamaica Kincaid

Image

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without…

Bill N. Lacy

Image

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates…

T.S. Mathews

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not only linguistic meanings but also an experience and history. Those communities have progressively split in the twentieth century, and grown more heterogeneous, and writers emerging from minority communities have found themselves addressing audiences closer to their…

Pankaj Mishra

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what…

Gore Vidal

Image

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision,…

Bob Dylan

Image

Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is a community for very difficult, challenging poetry. It's a community that's established itself over the last 80 years, that was originally, in effect, really started by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. They believed that poetry ought to…

Ted Kooser

“Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And so forth. Otherwise, no amount of practice or “Time management” will make them better. The same is true in all professions: if you’re stuck in the Training Mindset, evaluating yourself, or thinking in the past or future, you…

John Eliot

Browse all 78 Eliot quotes

Eliot Quote by Robert Frost

Related quotes

More by Robert Frost

More Eliot quotes