Robert Frost Quotes
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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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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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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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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Ants are a curious race.
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The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....
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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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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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The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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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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Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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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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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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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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We love things we love what they are.