Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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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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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material....
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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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Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
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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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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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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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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.
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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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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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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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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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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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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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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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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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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.