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• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• In spring more mortal singers than belong
  To any one place cover us with song.
  Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Spring, Robins

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

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• You know how cunningly mankind is planned:
  We have one loving and one hating hand.
  The loving's made to hold each other like,
  While with the hating other hand we strike.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Hate, Hands

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

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• O hushed October morning mild,
  Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
  Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild,
  Should waste them all.
  The crows above the forest call;
  Tomorrow they may form and go.
  O hushed October morning mild,
  Begin the hours of this day slow.
  Make the day seem to us less brief.
  Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
  Beguile us in the way you know.
  Release one leaf at break of day;
  At noon release another leaf;
  One from our trees, one far away.

  Robert Frost

  Morning, Fall, Heart

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.23, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Spring, Wind

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, People, Missing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

  Robert Frost

  Kids, Cowboy, Intellectual

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• Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate.
  Contemplate glory. There will be a light.
  Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Light, Glory

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

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• My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Eye, Sight

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• If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Long, People

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• The artist in me cries out for design.

  Robert Frost

  Artist, Design, Artistic

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

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• The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  Robert Frost

  Business, Drinking, Alcohol

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

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• The only way out is through.

  Robert Frost

  Christian Inspirational, Anxiety, Way

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

  Robert Frost

  Ice, Poetry, Forever

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

  Robert Frost

  Change, Heart, Dust

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.25, UPNE

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• Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Renewal, Settings

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• Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Poetry, Tennis

  Address to Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., 17 May 1935

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• The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

  Robert Frost

  Dog, Silly, Pups

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

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• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

  Robert Frost

  Confusion, Delight, Ends

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

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• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  Inspiration, Poetry, Delight

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

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• I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

  Robert Frost

  Powerful, Writing, Poetry

  1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

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• Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

  Robert Frost

  Water, Confusion, Confusing

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

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• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
  And give us not to think so far away
  As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
  All simply in the springing of the year.
  
  Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
  Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
  And make us happy in the happy bees,
  The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Flower, Thinking

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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• A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Men, Soul And Body

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

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