Robert Frost Quotes
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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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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Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,/ One each of everything as in a show-case/ Which naturally she doesn't care to sell.
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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No wonder poets sometimes have to seem. So much more business-like than business men./ Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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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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You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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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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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.