Robert Frost Quotes
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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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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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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come back.
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My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
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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.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth....
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
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What we live by we die by.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
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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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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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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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A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman.
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.