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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.
Robert Frost -
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.
Robert Frost
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
Robert Frost -
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost -
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.
Robert Frost -
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
Robert Frost -
Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.
Robert Frost
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
Robert Frost -
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
Robert Frost -
Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
Robert Frost -
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
Robert Frost -
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Robert Frost -
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.
Robert Frost
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
Robert Frost -
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Robert Frost -
The only way around is through.
Robert Frost -
To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.
Robert Frost -
A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
Robert Frost
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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.
Robert Frost -
Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
Robert Frost -
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
Robert Frost -
Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Robert Frost