Robert Frost Quotes

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

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Ants are a curious race

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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

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Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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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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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 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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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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