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Bounds should be set
To ingenuity for being so cruel
In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

Robert Frost

Change, Should, Restraint

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

Robert Frost

God, Ocean, Light

David A. Sohn, Richard Tyre, Robert Frost (1969). “Frost: The Poet and His Poetry”

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... War is for everyone, for children too.
I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't.
The best way is to come uphill with me
And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

Robert Frost

Children, Fear, War

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

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Haven't you heard, though,
About the ships where war has found them out
At sea, about the towns where war has come
Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels
And children in the ships and in the towns?

Robert Frost

Stars, Children, War

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

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The footpath down to the well is healed.

Robert Frost

Time, Healing, Footpaths

Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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To Time it never seems that he is brave
To set himself against the peaks of snow
To lay them level with the running wave,
Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
But only grave, contemplative and grave.

Robert Frost

Running, Lying, Snow

Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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Nature's first green is gold.

Robert Frost

Gold, Green, Firsts

Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.

Robert Frost

Soul, Target, Body

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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What an exciting age it is we live in
With all this talk about the hope of youth
And nothing made of youth.

Robert Frost

Age, Youth, Made

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

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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

Robert Frost

Baseball, Waste, My Family

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Robert Frost

Music, Sound, May

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.141, Harvard University Press

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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.

Robert Frost

Artist, August, Today

1961 'For John F Kennedy: His Inauguration', 20 Jan. Snowblindness prevented the aged poet from reading beyond the first three lines on the occasion.

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Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

Robert Frost

War, Taken, Poetry

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
Better a meaningless name, I should say,
As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
Name children some names and see what you do.

Robert Frost

Children, Hands, Names

Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.241, Everyman's Library

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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Robert Frost

People, Democracy, Chance

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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

Robert Frost

White, Tails, Said

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Robert Frost

Flower, Butterfly, Eye

Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.271, Everyman's Library

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Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

Robert Frost

Sleep, House, Politics

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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Let those possess the land, and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art.

Robert Frost

Love, Art, Strong

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

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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Robert Frost

Writing, Beginners, Trials

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Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Robert Frost

Family, College, United States

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

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Love has earth to which she clings.

Robert Frost

Love, Earth

Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.84, Penguin

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Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star.

Robert Frost

Love, Stars, Staying

Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

Robert Frost

Science, Towns, Telescopes

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

Robert Frost

Book, Artist, Annoyed

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

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Born: March 26, 1874
Died: January 29, 1963
Occupation: Poet
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