Robert Frost Quotes
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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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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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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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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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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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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
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The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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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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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.
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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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End is a gloomy word.
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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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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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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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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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Freedom lies in being bold.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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If one by one we counted people out.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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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....