Frosty the Nietzschean

I don't know much about Robert Frost, except for the three lines that every semi-literate American knows:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

But in this month's Harper's there are excerpts from a new collection of his notebooks which are really delightful, in a head-shaking, Nietzschean sort of way. To wit:

"The saddest is not to see the poor longing for what they can't have, but to see a poor child happy in the possession of something too trifling for anybody else to want. When it is a grown woman it is worse. When it is a man it is worst of all. It is a sight to make me willing to bring down the universe in ruins-in carnage."

"Ages may vary a little. One may be a little better or worse than another. But it is not possible to get outside of the age you are in to judge it exactly. Indeed it is as dangerous to try to get outside of anything as large as an age as it would be to engorge a whole donkey. "