Robert Frost Quotes, Science Quotes, Towns Quotes

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

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Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

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God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

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All great things are done for their own sake.

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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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All the fun is in how you say a thing.

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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

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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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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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