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Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
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Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
Robert Frost
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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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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
Robert Frost -
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost -
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost -
Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze ...
Robert Frost -
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost -
Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.
Robert Frost -
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
Robert Frost -
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Robert Frost -
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
Robert Frost
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost -
Haven't you heard, though, About the ships where war has found them out At sea, about the towns where war has come Through opening clouds at night with droning speed Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels And children in the ships and in the towns?
Robert Frost -
You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.
Robert Frost -
When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
Robert Frost -
If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.
Robert Frost -
The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost -
Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost -
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost -
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
Robert Frost