Robert Frost Quotes - Page 8

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• Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Men, Style

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• An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

  Robert Frost

  Ideas, Association, Height

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

  Robert Frost

  Art, Vocabulary, Discipline

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• You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Littles, Lost

  "Robert Frost: A Backward Look". Book by Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1964.

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• The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

  Robert Frost

  Positive, Ocean, Heart

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

  Robert Frost

  God Knows, Only God Knows, Knows

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• As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

  Robert Frost

  Blessed, Giving, Giving Back

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

  Robert Frost

  Sometimes, Wonder, Poet

  1923 'New Hampshire'.

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• I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

  Robert Frost

  Friendship, New York, Emotional

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• You can't get too much winter in the winter.

  Robert Frost

  Winter, Too Much, Funny Winter

  Robert Frost (1993). “The Road Not Taken, and Other Poems”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Motivation, Heart

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.301, Harvard University Press

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• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  Robert Frost

  Successful, Law, Feet

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• Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Wall, Men

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• Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Stories, Crafts

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• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Eye, Night

  "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

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• The only way round is through.

  Robert Frost

  Wisdom, Work, Way

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• For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

  Robert Frost

  Truth, Belief, Being True

  Robert Frost (1914). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  Robert Frost

  Power, Icy, World

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• If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

  Robert Frost

  Ideas, Association, Height

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• Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Art, Nice

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• Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Writing, Distinction

  Robert Frost (1968). “Selected prose of Robert Frost”

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• Our life runs down in sending up the clock.
  The brook runs down in sending up our life.
  The sun runs down in sending up the brook.
  And there is something sending up the sun.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Running, Sun

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

  Robert Frost

  Death, Men, Worry

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• Whose woods these are I think I know.
  His house is in the village though;
  He will not see me stopping here
  To watch his woods fill up with snow.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Snow, House

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 1 (1923)

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• If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Liberty, Fit

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