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She let him look, sure that he wouldn't see, Blind creature; and awhile he didn't see. But at last he murmured, "Oh," and again, "Oh." (Robert Frost)
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. View quote
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All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. View quote
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The birds that came to it through the air At broken windows flew out and in, Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh From too much dwelling on what has been. View quote
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"Well, who begun it?” That's what at the end of a war We always say not who won it, Or what it was foughten for. View quote
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I stopped my song and almost heart, For any eye is an evil eye That looks in onto a mood apart. View quote
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Till we came to be There was not a trace Of a thinking race Anywhere in space. View quote
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He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours.”. View quote
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The artist in me cries out for design. View quote
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. View quote
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. (Robert Frost)
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. View quote
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. View quote
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. View quote
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. View quote
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. View quote
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. View quote
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. View quote
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia. View quote
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house. View quote
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. (Robert Frost)
I go to school to youth to learn the future. View quote
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. View quote
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. View quote
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You can't get too much winter in the winter. View quote
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