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The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed. That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged -- though not dead. I know how the flowers felt. (Robert Frost)
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. View quote
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The only certain freedom's in departure. View quote
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth. View quote
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on. View quote
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. View quote
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Anything more than the truth would be too much. View quote
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. View quote
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart. View quote
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain. View quote
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This was no playhouse but a house in earnest. Your destination and your destiny's A brook that was the water of the house, Cold as a spring as yet so near its source, Too lofty and original to rage. (Robert Frost)
I have kept hidden in the instep arch Of an old cedar at the waterside A broken drinking goblet like the Grail Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it. View quote
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You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing. View quote
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'I can repeat the very words you were saying: "Three foggy mornings and one rainy day Will rot the best birch fence a man can build." View quote
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How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail. View quote
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. View quote
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He says the highway dust is over all. The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing. The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing. View quote
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They think too much of having shaded out A few old pecker-fretted apple trees. View quote
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He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. View quote
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I'm not so much Unlike other folks as your standing there Apart would make me out. Give me my chance. View quote
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Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. (Robert Frost)
I own any form of humor shows fear and inferiority. Irony is simply a kind of guardedness. So is a twinkle. It keeps the reader from criticism. View quote
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I do not see why I should e'er turn back. View quote
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There was the book of profile tales declaring For the emboldened politicians daring To break with followers when in the wrong, A healthy independence of the throng, A democratic form of right divine To rule first answerable to high design. There is a call to life a little sterner, And braver for the earner, learner, yearner. View quote
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The height of the adventure is the height Of country where two village cultures faded Into each other. Both of them are lost. View quote
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