Robert Frost Quotes, Reading Quotes, Taken Quotes

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

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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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When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

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You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

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The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.

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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

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The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

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I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.

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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

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