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• It was far in the sameness of the wood;
  I was running with joy on the Demon's trail,
  Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

  Robert Frost

  God, Running, Joy

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

  Robert Frost

  Icy, Cowardice, Engaging

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• I never take my own side in a quarrel.

  Robert Frost

  Sides, Quarrels, My Own

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

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• I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Ideas, Ought

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• If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

  Robert Frost

  Doe, Cry, Reader

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• The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

  Robert Frost

  Garden, Snakes, Evil

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.246, Everyman's Library

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• God once declared He was true
  And then took the veil and withdrew.

  Robert Frost

  God, Truth, Withdrawal

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

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• No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

  Robert Frost

  Memories, Ends, Disregard

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

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• I go to school the youth to learn the future.

  Robert Frost

  School, Youth

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• Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

  Robert Frost

  Fighting, Hands, Stones

  Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”

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• You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Rose, Courses

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

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• I am one who has been acquainted with the night

  Robert Frost

  Night, Has Beens

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• Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Shapes, Duty

  North of Boston (1914) "Self-Seeker"

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• What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

  Robert Frost

  Young

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

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• One age is like another for the soul.

  Robert Frost

  History, Soul, Age

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

  Robert Frost

  People, Risk, Want

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• But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Summer, Air

  Robert Frost (2016). “Promises to keep: Poems. Gedichte”, p.168, C.H.Beck

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• A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Eight

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• God turned to speak to me
  (Don't anybody laugh);
  God found I wasn't there
  At least not over half.

  Robert Frost

  God, Laughing, Half

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

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• I have remained resentful to this day
  When any but myself presumed to say
  That there was anything I couldn't be.

  Robert Frost

  Ambition, Resentment, Resentful

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

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• But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

  Robert Frost

  Gold, Engagement, Jewelry

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

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• Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

  Robert Frost

  Earth, Spirit, Heroic

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.40, Everyman's Library

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• 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

  Years, Land, People

  "The Gift Outright" l. 1 (1942).

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• 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.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Beautiful, Rain

  Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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• I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Gains, Entertainment

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.242, Harvard University Press

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