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• The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

  Robert Frost

  Friendship, Trying, Might

  Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.45, Penguin

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• States strong enough to do good are but few.
  Their number would seem limited to three.

  Robert Frost

  Strength, Strong, Numbers

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

  Robert Frost

  Fate, Weather, Imagination

  Robert Frost (1928). “West-running Brook”, Henry Holt

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• Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.
  But here is not a question of what's sacred;
  Rather of what to face or run away from.
  I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.

  Robert Frost

  Running, Nature, Hate

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Business, Ocean

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• Let me be the one To do what is done.

  Robert Frost

  Done, Let Me

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.387, Harvard University Press

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• Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Learning, May

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

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• We're either nothing or a God's regret.

  Robert Frost

  God, Regret, Human Condition

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

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• For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
  By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Machinery, Whole

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

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• When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

  Robert Frost

  Horse, Wall, Character

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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• Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

  Robert Frost

  Yesterday, Snow, Months

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

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• Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

  Robert Frost

  Rolling, Evolution, Barrels

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

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• I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

  Robert Frost

  Poet, Persons

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• Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

  Robert Frost

  Play, Enemy, Able

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• Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

  Robert Frost

  Doubt, Belief

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

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• I wonder about the trees.
  Why do we wish to bear
  Forever the noise of these
  More than another noise
  So close to our dwelling place?

  Robert Frost

  Music, Dwelling Place, Tree

  Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

  Robert Frost

  Birth Life, Earth, Birth

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

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• How are we to write
  The Russian novel in America
  As long as life goes so unterribly?

  Robert Frost

  Writing, America, Long

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Differences, Smoking

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• New is a word for fools in towns who think
  Style upon style in dress and thought at last
  Must get somewhere.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Style, Dresses

  Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

  Robert Frost

  Teaching, Writing, Cities

  Robert Frost (1995). “Collected Poems, Prose & Plays”, Severn House Paperbacks

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• The truth is the river flows into the canyon
  Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
  As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

  Robert Frost

  Rivers, Flow, Truth Is

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

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• But what would interest you about the brook,
  It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.

  Robert Frost

  Summer, Winter, Rivers

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

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• The city is all right. To live in one
  Is to be civilized, stay up and read
  Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
  By waiting up instead of getting up.

  Robert Frost

  Night, Civilization, Cities

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

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

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Father, Humorous

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