Robert Frost Quotes
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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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It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...
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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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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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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.
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
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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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I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...
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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
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A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork.
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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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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.