Robert Frost Quotes
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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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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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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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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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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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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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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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.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far 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.
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.
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Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.