Robert Frost Quotes - Page 7

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• I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Teacher, Mathematics

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• It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

  Robert Frost

  Dark, Night, Age

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

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• They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

  Robert Frost

  Icy, Changed, Find Me

  Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

  Robert Frost

  Lonely, Men, Boss

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• Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Thinking, Fire

  "Fire and Ice" l. 5 (1923)

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• Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

  Robert Frost

  Injustice, Mercy

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

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• Earth would soon
  Be uninhabitable as the moon.
  What for that matter had it ever been?
  Who advised man to come and live therein?

  Robert Frost

  Moon, Men, Earth

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  Robert Frost

  Acceptance, Long, Maintenance

  "Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis". Book by Bent Flyvbjerg, p. 72, April 19, 2012.

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• Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

  Robert Frost

  Order, Rate, Amount

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• To be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Society

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

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• Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Evil, Looks

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

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• Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

  Robert Frost

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

  Robert Frost

  Choices, One Word

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

  Robert Frost

  Wall, Knowledge, Science

  "MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

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• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

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• Writing a poem is discovering.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Discovering

  1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

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• Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

  Robert Frost

  Spiritual, Creativity, People

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• Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Gold

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

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• Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

  Robert Frost

  Advice, Agnostic

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• I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

  Robert Frost

  Behinds, Hard

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• The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Mom, Fathers Day

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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• What we live by we die by.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Live By, Dies

  Robert Frost (2004). “North of Boston”, p.68, 1st World Publishing

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• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Talking, House

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Brave, Fine

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