Robert Frost Quotes
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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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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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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Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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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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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
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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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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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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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Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
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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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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?
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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Ants are a curious race.
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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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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.