Robert Frost Quotes
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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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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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The test is always how we treat the poor.
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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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I always entertain great hopes.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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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.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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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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So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.
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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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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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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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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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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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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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Loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round.