Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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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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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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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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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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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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Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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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 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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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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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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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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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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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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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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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.