Robert Frost Quotes

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

Robert Frost
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....

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Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

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What an exciting age it is we live in
With all this talk about the hope of youth
And nothing made of youth.

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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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The city is all right. To live in one
Is to be civilized, stay up and read
Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
By waiting up instead of getting up.

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When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

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You know how cunningly mankind is planned:
We have one loving and one hating hand.
The loving's made to hold each other like,
While with the hating other hand we strike.

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

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Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave.

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In spring more mortal singers than belong
To any one place cover us with song.
Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng....

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But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.

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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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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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Earth would soon
Be uninhabitable as the moon.
What for that matter had it ever been?
Who advised man to come and live therein?

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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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The great Overdog, That heavenly beast With a star in one eye, Gives a leap in the east. He dances upright All the way to the west And never once drops On his forefeet to rest. I'm a poor underdog, But tonight I will bark With the great Overdog That romps through the dark.

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Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone,
That science may have staked the future on?
He seems to say the reason why so much
Should come to nothing must be fairly faced....

Robert Frost
As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.

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Lord, I have loved Your sky,
Be it said against or for me,
Have loved it clear and high,
Or low and stormy....

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I have remained resentful to this day
When any but myself presumed to say
That there was anything I couldn't be.

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New is a word for fools in towns who think
Style upon style in dress and thought at last
Must get somewhere.

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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

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You'll wait a long, long time for anything much To happen in heaven.

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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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Many lovers have been divorced
By having what is free enforced.

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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.
But here is not a question of what's sacred;
Rather of what to face or run away from.
I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.

Robert Frost
Let chaos storm! Let cloud shapes swarm! I wait for form.

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