Robert Frost Quotes

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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....

Robert Frost
Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
And that they may be is the only prayer
Worth praying. May my sacrifice
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

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I own I never really warmed
To the reformer or reformed.
And yet conversion has its place
Not halfway down the scale of grace.

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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

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The Universe is but the Thing of Things The things but balls all going round in rings Some of them mighty huge, some mighty tiny All of them radiant and might shiny.

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Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

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Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star.

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Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

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Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord.

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It was far in the sameness of the wood;
I was running with joy on the Demon's trail,
Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

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Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out.

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War is for everyone, for children too.
I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't.
The best way is to come uphill with me
And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

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God once declared He was true
And then took the veil and withdrew....

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Did you stay up last night (the Magi did) To see the star shower known as Leonid That once a year by hand or apparatus Is so mysteriously pelted at us?

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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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Never tell me that not one star of all That slipped from heaven at night and softly fall Has been picked up with stones to build a wall.

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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

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Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press.

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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing... is discovering.

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Live and let live, believe and let believe.
'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits
Of the one awful God. Just so the saints
Are God's white light refracted into colors.

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A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
Better a meaningless name, I should say,
As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
Name children some names and see what you do.

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It was in a state Of Atomic One Matter was begun — And in fact complete One and yet discrete To conflict and pair. Everything was there Every single thing Waiting was to bring Clear from hydrogen All the way to men.

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

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The problem for the King is just how strict
The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law
And discipline should be in school and state....

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Let those possess the land, and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art....

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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

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

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All reasoning is in a circle. At least that's why the universe is round.

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You can't trust God to be unmerciful.
There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

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Nature's never quite
Sure she hasn't erred
In her vague design....

Robert Frost