I. Frost's Selected Quotations

Everything at Amazon by and about: Joan Walsh Anglund

1. The arrow
            of AMBITION
                    flies high
    but,
        missing target,
                    is deadly
                               in descent.



2. Child,
        who sculptured you,
        that
                your
                face
                       is
                       so
                       like
                       mine
                only
                yet
                       so
                       much
                       your
                       own?



3. What need we TOUCH a CHILD . . .
with our books and rules?

Let him walk among the hills and flowers,
let him gaze upon the waters,
let him look up to the stars . . .

and he will have his WISDOM.



4. How cold
                is CONCLUSION
               when
                BEGINNING
                            was
                                so
                                   warm.



5. Like brothers at play,
               DOUBT and BELIEF
                    forever teeter - totter
                               within my soul.



6. DOUBT did the cutting,
HATE was the knife.
There was only one thrust,
       but it severed a life.



. We are separate stars
within
a mutual right.

Against the encompassing darkness
let us
together
light our candles.



2. Be careful
                   which DREAM
                                   you clutch.....
    for DREAMS come true!



3. So often, that which we are
is sacrificed
to that
which we WISH
ourselves
to be.



4. When IDEAS
                   are
                        narrow,
            they
                   become
                           the bars
    by
    which
            a
            man
            is
                        imprisoned.



5. The miracle is
                        that LIFE continues.
    The sorrow is
                        that we do not.


It is not I
who speaks
but LIFE
within me
who has much to say!



2. If you LOVE me,
                        you will remember.
    If you do not,
                        it is better
                                    that we both forget.



3. One rose
given in LOVE
is remembered more
than roomfuls
given in duty.



4. What matters?
Very little.
Only . . .
the flicker of light
within the darkness,
the feeling of warmth
within the cold,
the knowledge of LOVE
within the void.



5. It is when
we earn LOVE
least
that
we need it
most



1. MEMORY
               has many hollows ...
           Let me hide
                           in one.



2. My mind
                never tells me ...
       Only the MIRROR speaks
                                    of the passing years.



3. For
       every
       MURDER
       I
       allow,
                    I
                    am
               the victim.



4. PEACE is the harvest of LOVE
               as
       WAR is the fruit of HATE.



5. Like greedy fish,
                we bob to the surface
                    when crumbs of PRAISE
                                        are tossed.



6 Where is the YESTERDAY
                    that WORRIED us so?

1. SELF
            forever paints
                               her own portrait
            across
                    the wide canvas
                                        of LIFE.



2. SPRING
               does
               not
               ask
       an
       audience
               but
               shapes
               each
               blossom
               perfectly,
                            indifferent
                            to
                            applause.



3. Do not be SAD
                    that you have SUFFERED,
       Be GLAD
                    that you have LIVED.



4. On
        the thin line
                           between dawn
                                        and darkness,
       SUNRISE
                writes
                        her
                               poem.



5. Home!
               Bring them home
                                    these children dead
       Above each head
                    we nail a cross.

                    Oh ... heavy cost!
                    On children lost
                                the beast of WAR
                                                    is
                                                    fed.




6 How easy
                the breath
                               that kills a flame.
       How hard
                to kindle
                               that light again.
       Cold WORDS kill
                           and
                                kind WORDS kindle.
       By WORDS withheld,
                                a dream may dwindle.