Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Nature's first green is gold.
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The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
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God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.
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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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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far apart.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich. Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?