Quotes by Frost, Robert

"Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich."

Frost, Robert on nationalities and nationalism
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"Good fences make good neighbors."

Frost, Robert on neighbors   

"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense."

Frost, Robert on nonsense
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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

Frost, Robert on optimism   

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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

Frost, Robert on parents and parenting
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"Poetry is what is lost in translation."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets   

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."

Frost, Robert on autumn
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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."

Frost, Robert on power   

"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on promises
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."

Frost, Robert on radicals
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"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

Frost, Robert on reason
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"Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

Frost, Robert on risk
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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."

Frost, Robert on school   

"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."

Frost, Robert on secrets
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"Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?"

Frost, Robert on skepticism   

"To be social is to be forgiving."

Frost, Robert on society
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"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard."

Frost, Robert on stardom   

"What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?"

Frost, Robert on birth   

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Frost, Robert on books - reading
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"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."

Frost, Robert on bosses and employees
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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Frost, Robert on change
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"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

Frost, Robert on teacher
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"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting."

Frost, Robert on thoughts and thinking   

"Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30."

Frost, Robert on time
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"Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Frost, Robert on truth
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"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."

Frost, Robert on universe   

"Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother."

Frost, Robert on vanity   

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

Frost, Robert on power
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"A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork."

Frost, Robert on work   

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office."

Frost, Robert on work
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

Frost, Robert on worry
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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."

Frost, Robert on choice
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"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down"

Frost, Robert on communication   

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Frost, Robert on communication
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"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."

Frost, Robert on confusion
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