Robert Frost Quotes
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So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
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Loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round.
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The footpath down to the well is healed.
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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty.
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.