Robert Frost quotes - page 4

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)
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song I'mboundaway And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died. View quote
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. View quote
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Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family But not much in between unless a college. View quote
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. View quote
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it. View quote
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March. View quote
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My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' View quote
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. View quote
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All those who try to go it sole alone Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. View quote
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat. (Robert Frost)
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. View quote
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I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none. View quote
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People are inexterminable -- like flies and bedbugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices -- that's us. View quote
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. View quote
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Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been. View quote
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. View quote
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue. View quote
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's the wife who can't and will. View quote
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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. View quote
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I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost)
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. View quote
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days. View quote
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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs. View quote
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It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may take something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. View quote
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