I. Frost's Selected Quotations

All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
The Boxer

Homeward bound. I wish I was homeward bound.
Homeward Bound

If I had never loved I never would have cried." -
I Am a Rock

"In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade and he carries the reminder of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame 'I am leaving I am leaving' but the fighter still remained." -
The Boxer

I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
El Condor Pasa

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
The Sounds Of Silence

Fools, said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows.
Sound Of Silence

Preserve your memories, they're all that's left of you.
Bookends

I'm on your side, when times get rough, and friends just can't be found, like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.
Bridge Over Troubled Water

The only truth I know is you.
Kathy's Song

When you're weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all.
Bridge Over Troubled Water

I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries.
I Am A Rock

If I never loved, I never would have cried.
I Am A Rock

All my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity.
Homeward Bound

Time of innocense, a time of confidences, long ago it must be.
Bookends

When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas, whoever he was.
A Simple Desultory Philippic

You read your Emily Dickinson and I my Robert Frost, and we note our place with bookmarkers that measure what we've lost.
The Dangling Conversation

Like a poem poorly written we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme in syncopated time.
The Dangling Conversation

My words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the well of silence.
Sound Of Silence

Blessed are the meth drinkers, pot sellers, illusion dwellers. Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me?
Blessed

I've been Rolling Stoned and Beatled 'til I'm blind.
A Simple Desultory Philippic

Your time has come to shine, all your dreams are on their way.
Bridge Over Troubled Water

I held her close, but she faded in the night like a poem I meant to write.
Leaves That Are Green

I watch her breasts gently rise, gently fall.
Wednesday, 3 A.M.

Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia up in my bedroom. I got up to wash my face, when I came back to bed, someone has taken my place.
Cecilia

Monkeys stand for honesty.
At The Zoo

After changes upon changes we are more or less the same.
The Boxer

People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare distrurb the sound of silence
Sound Of Silence

Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.
Mrs. Robinson

Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.
Blessed

A vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping. And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains within the sound of silence.
Sound Of Silence

I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises.
The Boxer

I've learned the truth from Lenny Bruce.
A Simple Desultory Phillippic

Life I love you, all is groovy.
59th Street Bridge Song

Slow down, you move too fast, got to make the morning last.
59th Street Bridge Song

Through the corridors of sleep past the shadows dark and deep, my mind dances and leaps in confusion. I don't know what is real I can't touch what I feel, and I hide behind the shield of my illusion.
Flowers Never Bend With Rainfall

Time, time, time, see what's become of me, while I looked around for my possibilities.
A Hazy Shade Of Winter

On a tour of one night stands, my suitcase and guitar at hand, and every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one man band.
Homeward Bound

Just a come-on from the whores on 7th Avenue. I do declare, there were times I was so lonesome I took some comfort there.
The Boxer

Hello, lamp post, whatcha knowin'? I've come to watch your flowers growin'.
59th Street Bridge Song

Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflakes floating in my bowl.
Punky's Dilemma

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
I Am A Rock