Robert Frost Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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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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It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom
Of having children after having had them,
So there is nothing we can do about it
But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

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And how much longer a story has science Before she must put out the light on the children And tell them the rest of the story is dreaming?

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There is no love.
There's only love of men and women, love
Of children, love of friends, of men, of God:
Divine love, human love, parental love,
Roughly discriminated for the rough.

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. Its contemplation makes us out as small As a brief epidemic of microbes.

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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 truth is the river flows into the canyon
Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

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You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

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The Moon for all her light and grace
Has never learned to know her place.

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One of the lies would make it out that nothing
Ever presents itself before us twice.
Where would we be at last if that were so?
Our very life depends on everything's
Recurring till we answer from within.

Robert Frost
No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found....

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A man has got to keep his extrication.
The important thing is not to get bogged down
In what he has to do to earn a living....

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But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

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"But Cygnus isn't in the Zodiac," Dick longed to say, but wasn't sure enough Of his astronomy...

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I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow.

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Bounds should be set
To ingenuity for being so cruel
In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

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There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man....

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Man acts more like the poor bear in a cage That all day fights a nervous inward rage. The toenail click at the shuffle of his feet, The telescope at one end of his beat, And at the other end the microscope, Two instruments of nearly equal hope.

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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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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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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.

Robert Frost