Robert Frost quotes
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“The best way out is always through.”
-- Robert FrostSource : North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
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“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
-- Robert FrostSource : "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)
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“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
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“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
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“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
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“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
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“Freedom lies in being bold.”
-- Robert Frost#Being Strong Quotes #Veterans Day Quotes #Memorial Day Quotes
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“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
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“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
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“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
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“All great things are done for their own sake.”
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“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.”
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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
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“It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...”
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“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”
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“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)”
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“I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.”
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“Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.”
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“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”
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“I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.”
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“If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.”
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“We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.”
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“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
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“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?”
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“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
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“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.”
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“The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.”
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“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
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“You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.”
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“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
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“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
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“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”
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“Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.”
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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”
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“Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.”
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“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
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“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”
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“A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.”
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“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
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“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
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“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
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“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
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“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
-- Robert FrostSource : "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.
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“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
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“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
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“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
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“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”
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“You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.”
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
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“Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.”
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
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“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
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“You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.”
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“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.”
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“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
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“I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.”
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“O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.”
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“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
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“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”
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“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”
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“Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”
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“The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.”
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“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”
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“There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.”
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“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”
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“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
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“What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.”
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“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”
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“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
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“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.”
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“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”
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“Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.”
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“They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.”
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“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”
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“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
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“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”
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“But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?”
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“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
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“Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”
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“Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.”
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“The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.”
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