Robert Frost Quotes
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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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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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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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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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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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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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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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.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.