Robert Frost Quotes
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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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 took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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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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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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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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Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy....
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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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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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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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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart. In that vanished abode there far apart.
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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?
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.