Robert Frost Quotes
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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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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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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.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.
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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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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 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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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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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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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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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.
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I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents.
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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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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.