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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.
Robert Frost
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....
Robert Frost -
One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
Robert Frost -
Ants are a curious race.
Robert Frost -
And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
Robert Frost -
Don't be agnostic - be something.
Robert Frost -
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
Robert Frost
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost -
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost -
If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
Robert Frost -
It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.
Robert Frost -
A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
Robert Frost -
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.
Robert Frost
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Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
Robert Frost -
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....
Robert Frost -
But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
Robert Frost -
If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.
Robert Frost -
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
Robert Frost -
Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
Robert Frost
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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.
Robert Frost -
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost -
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
Robert Frost -
The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
Robert Frost