Robert Frost Quotes
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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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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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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The chance is the remotest. Of its going much longer unnoticed. That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race.
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For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.