Robert Frost Quotes
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
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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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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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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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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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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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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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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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A turning point in modern history.
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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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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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.