Robert Frost Quotes
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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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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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I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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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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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
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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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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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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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A turning point in modern history.
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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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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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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.