Robert Frost Quotes
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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Love has earth to which she clings....
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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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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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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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork.
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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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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
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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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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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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.