Robert Frost Quotes
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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.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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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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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.
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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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I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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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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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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We love things we love what they are.
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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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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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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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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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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.