Robert Frost Quotes

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He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

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Till we came to be
There was not a trace
Of a thinking race
Anywhere in space.

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The Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow.

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

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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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But he sent her Good-by,
And said to be good,
And wear her red hood,
And look for skunk tracks
In the snow with an ax —
And do everything!

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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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I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew —
Only more sure of all I thought was true.

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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark,
To lean against and hear in the dark.
Petals I may have once pursued.
Leaves are all my darker mood.

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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.

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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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The world has room to make a bear feel free;
The universe seems cramped to you and me.

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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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We've looked and looked, but after all where are we?
Do we know any better where we are,
And how it stands between the night tonight
And a man with a smoky lantern chimney?
How different from the way it ever stood?

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Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.

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All the dust the wind blew high
Appeared like god in the sunset sky,
But I was one of the children told
Some of the dust was really gold.

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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

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As for his evil tidings,
Belshazzar's overthrow,
Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
What soon enough he would know?

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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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