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• Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Wall

  "MendingWall" l. 1 (1914)

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• I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reflection, Order

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• Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,
  In her complacent ministry of fear,
  How we propose to get away from here
  When she has made things so we have to go
  Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show
  Us how by rocket we may hope to steer
  To some star off there, say, a half light-year
  Through temperature of absolute zero?
  Why wait for Science to supply the how
  When any amateur can tell it now?
  The way to go away should be the same
  As fifty million years ago we came-
  If anyone remembers how that was
  I have a theory, but it hardly does.

  Robert Frost

  Sarcastic, Stars, Zero

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• The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

  Robert Frost

  School, Past, College

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

  Robert Frost

  God, Eye, Cutting

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• The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

  Robert Frost

  Bookstores, Firsts, Towns

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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• I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

  Robert Frost

  Summer, Lonely, House

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• I have wished a bird would fly away,
  And not sing by my house all day;
  Have clapped my hands at him from the door
  When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
  The fault must partly have been in me.
  The bird was not to blame for his key.
  And of course there must be something wrong
  In wanting to silence any song.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Keys, Doors

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.331, Harvard University Press

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• What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

  Robert Frost

  Hope, Expectations, Waiting

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• A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

  Robert Frost

  Book, Looks, Breeze

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.496, Harvard University Press

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• I could give all to Time except--except
  What I myself have held.

  Robert Frost

  Time, Giving

  Robert Frost, David Bradley, Dewitt Jones (1979). “Robert Frost, a tribute to the source”, Henry Holt & Co

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• The only way out is to go through

  Robert Frost

  Way

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• loosely bound
  By countless silken ties of love and thought
  To everything on earth the compass round

  Robert Frost

  Love, Ties, Earth

  Robert Frost (1943). “A Witness Tree”

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• When clever people ask me where
  I get a poem, I despair.

  Robert Frost

  Clever, People, Poetry

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Silence, Pressure

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• You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Littles, Grammar

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• I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

  Robert Frost

  Bye, Feet, House

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Optimism, Climbing Trees

  "Birches" l. 59 (1916)

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• We ran as if to meet the moon.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Moon

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.20, Delphi Classics

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• The sister's face
  Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility.
  She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.

  Robert Frost

  Responsibility, Thinking, Wrinkles

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Stories, World

  "The Lesson for Today" l. 158 (1942)

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• Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

  Robert Frost

  Loyalty, Trials, Benefits

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

  Robert Frost

  Vocabulary, Discipline, Delight

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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.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.265, Harvard University Press

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