Robert Frost Quotes, Kings Quotes, Circles Quotes

... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.

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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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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

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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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The only way out is through.

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The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

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Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

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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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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

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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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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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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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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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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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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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