Robert Frost Tree Quotations

Tree at my window, window tree,/ My sash is lowered when night comes on;/ But let there never be curtain drawn/ Between you and me.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are....

I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.