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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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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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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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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If one by one we counted people out.
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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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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.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
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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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We love things we love what they are.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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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 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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Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?