Robert Frost Quotes, Love Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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Ants are a curious race

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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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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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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

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What we live by we die by.

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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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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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

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

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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat

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