Robert Frost Quotes
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Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.
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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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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
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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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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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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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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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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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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 cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....
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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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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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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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Next to nothing for use.But a crop is a crop,And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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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 came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.