Robert Frost quotes - page 13

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching. (Robert Frost)
Before I built a wall Id ask to know What I was walling in or walling out. View quote
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All the fun's in how you say a thing. View quote
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. View quote
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart. View quote
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All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew. View quote
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Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. View quote
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What is required is sight and insight then you might add one more -- excite. View quote
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Don't be an agnostic--be something. View quote
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. View quote
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have. (Robert Frost)
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. View quote
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall. View quote
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sightit's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else. View quote
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there. View quote
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Lovers, forget your love, And list to the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze. View quote
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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases ... but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book. View quote
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here. View quote
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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business. View quote
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. View quote
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The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks. (Robert Frost)
What is this talked-of mystery of birth; But being mounted bareback on the earth. View quote
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Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. View quote
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. View quote
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove. View quote
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