Robert Frost Quotes
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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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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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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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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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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Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
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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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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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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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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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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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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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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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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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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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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.