Robert Frost Quotes
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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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The only way out is to go through.
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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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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.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
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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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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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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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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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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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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material....
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The chance is the remotest. Of its going much longer unnoticed. That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.