Robert Frost Quotes
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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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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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what you came for and become like me, Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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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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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
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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.
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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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What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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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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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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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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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.