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• The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

  Robert Frost

  Race, Pace, Chance

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

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• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

  Robert Frost

  Sorry, Taken, Journey

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

  Robert Frost

  Men, World, Someday

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

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• "If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

  Robert Frost

  Dog, Noses, Source

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• Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

  Robert Frost

  Expression, Effort, Reaching

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• The rose is a rose, And was always a rose.
  But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Apples, Rose

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

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• The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

  Robert Frost

  Hurt, Long, Weight

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

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• I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

  Robert Frost

  Ifs

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

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• Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

  Robert Frost

  House, Secret, Tone

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

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• I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

  Robert Frost

  Earth, Get Away

  "Birches" l. 48 (1916)

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• Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

  Robert Frost

  Space, Sick

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

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• If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Russia, America

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• So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

  Robert Frost

  Dream, Birch Trees

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
  Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

  Robert Frost

  Courage, Air, Stalemate

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

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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.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Book, School

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Way, Lost

  Robert Frost (1961). “Conversations on the Craft of Poetry”

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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

  Robert Frost

  Fire, Ice, Poetry

  "Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)

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• Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Poetry, Common

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• He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Tree, Neighbor

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• Live and let live, believe and let believe.
  'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits
  Of the one awful God. Just so the saints
  Are God's white light refracted into colors.

  Robert Frost

  God, Believe, Light

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

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• Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
  Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
  No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
  Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

  Robert Frost

  War, Giving, Nuisance

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

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• One luminary clock against the sky
  Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

  Robert Frost

  Time, Sky, Clock

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

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• A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
  Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

  Robert Frost

  Bird, Tunes, Noon

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

  Robert Frost

  Statistics, Outsiders, Dignity

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