Robert Frost Quotes
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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state....
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
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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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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
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Ants are a curious race.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.