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• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  Love Is, Desire, Delight

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Essay by Robert Frost, 1939.

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• Love at the lips was touch
  As sweet as I could bear;
  And once that seemed too much;
  I lived on air.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Sweet

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

  Robert Frost

  Spiritual, Healing, Profound

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• I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

  Robert Frost

  Observation, Edges

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• You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

  Robert Frost

  Brave, Ethics, Chance

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• I have miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Sleep, Miles, Miles To Go

  Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”

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• Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Poet, Hours

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• 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.
  Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
  The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

  Robert Frost

  Fall, Sleep, Winter

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.94, Coyote Canyon Press

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• What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

  Robert Frost

  Travel, Home, Pieces

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• He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

  Robert Frost

  Way, Agree, Best Way

  Robert Frost (2004). “North of Boston”, p.38, 1st World Publishing

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• One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

  Robert Frost

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.145, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
  To darken nature and be summer woods.

  Robert Frost

  Summer, Tree, Bud

  Robert Frost, Robert Newdick (1932). “Robert Frost”

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• I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

  Robert Frost

  Conservative, Young, Radical

  "Precaution" l. 1 (1936)

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• We disparage reason.
  But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.
  There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.
  Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

  Robert Frost

  Gears, Reason, Steering

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

  Robert Frost

  Stupid, Believe, People

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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

  Robert Frost

  Mother, Men, Vanity

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• I have wished a bird would fly away,
  And not sing by my house all day.

  Robert Frost

  House, Bird, Fly Away

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.732, Harvard University Press

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• If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

  Robert Frost

  Home, May, Knows

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

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• Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

  Robert Frost

  Teamwork, Men, Working Together

  Robert Frost, “The Tuft Of Flowers”

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• He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

  Robert Frost

  Fire, House, Vision

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.314, Harvard University Press

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• You can't trust God to be unmerciful.
  There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  God, Wisdom, Trust In God

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

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• I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Play, Poetry

  In Edward Lathem 'Interviews with Robert Frost' (1966) p. 203

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• The problem for the King is just how strict
  The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law
  And discipline should be in school and state.

  Robert Frost

  Kings, School, Government

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

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• 'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?'
  I don't suppose the water's changed at all.
  You and I know enough to know it's warm
  Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm.
  But all the fun's in how you say a thing.

  Robert Frost

  Summer, Fun, June

  Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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• The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

  Robert Frost

  Dream, Facts, Labor

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.354, Harvard University Press

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