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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
Robert Frost -
Now no joy but lacks salt .That is not dashed with pain and weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
Robert Frost
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost -
There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
Robert Frost -
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
Robert Frost -
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
Robert Frost -
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.
Robert Frost -
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
Robert Frost
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Robert Frost -
I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.
Robert Frost -
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Robert Frost
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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost -
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.
Robert Frost -
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
Robert Frost -
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
Robert Frost
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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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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.
Robert Frost -
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.
Robert Frost -
I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.
Robert Frost