Robert Frost Quotes
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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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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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
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A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.
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Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.
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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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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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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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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.