Robert Frost Quotes
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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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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Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come back.
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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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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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.