Robert Frost Quotes
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Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.
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Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
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My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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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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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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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.
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I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.