Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Nature's first green is gold.
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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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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree and climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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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?
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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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.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.