Robert Frost - People Quotes

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If one by one we counted people out
For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long
To get so we had no one left to live with.
For to be social is to be forgiving.

Robert Frost
Come fresh from an election like the last,
The greatest vote a people ever cast,
So close yet sure to be abided by,
It is no miracle our mood is high.

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The land was ours before we were the land's.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people.

Robert Frost
Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

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The little graveyard where my people are!
So small the window frames the whole of it.

Robert Frost
People are inexterminable — like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices — that's us.

Robert Frost
The nearest friends can go
With anyone to death, comes so far short
They might as well not try to go at all.
No, from the time when one is sick to death,
One is alone, and he dies more alone.
Friends make pretence of following to the grave,
But before one is in it, their minds are turned
And making the best of their way back to life
And living people, and things they understand.

Robert Frost
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 land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be —
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.

Robert Frost
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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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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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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