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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
Robert Frost
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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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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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.
Robert Frost
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But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Robert Frost
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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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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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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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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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost
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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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A turning point in modern history.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
Robert Frost