Robert Frost Quotes
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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
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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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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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He says the best way out is always through. And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through.
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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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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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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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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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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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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far apart.
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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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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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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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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.