"Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost..." - Quote by Robert Frost
Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
More by Robert Frost
“I go to school the youth to learn the future.”
“We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.”
“A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”
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“The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.”
“The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.”
“My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.”
More on Comparison
“Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.”
“Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
“In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.”