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• It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

  Robert Frost

  World, This World, Hard

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• I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

  Robert Frost

  Conservative, Young, Radical

  "Precaution" l. 1 (1936)

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• The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

  Robert Frost

  Bookstores, Firsts, Towns

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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• You can't trust God to be unmerciful.
  There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  God, Wisdom, Trust In God

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

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• Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Music, Witty

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• We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

  Robert Frost

  Stupid, Believe, People

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

  Robert Frost

  Dream, Facts, Labor

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.354, Harvard University Press

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• The problem for the King is just how strict
  The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law
  And discipline should be in school and state.

  Robert Frost

  Kings, School, Government

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

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• I have wished a bird would fly away,
  And not sing by my house all day;
  Have clapped my hands at him from the door
  When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
  The fault must partly have been in me.
  The bird was not to blame for his key.
  And of course there must be something wrong
  In wanting to silence any song.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Keys, Doors

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.331, Harvard University Press

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• Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

  Robert Frost

  Book, Looks, Breeze

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.496, Harvard University Press

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• I could give all to Time except--except
  What I myself have held.

  Robert Frost

  Time, Giving

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

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• I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.

  Robert Frost

  Clouds, Voice, White

  Robert Frost, “The Sound Of The Trees”

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• Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

  Robert Frost

  Sex, Motivation, Passion

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• The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

  Robert Frost

  Years, Land, People

  "The Gift Outright" l. 1 (1942).

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• You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Littles, Grammar

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• When clever people ask me where
  I get a poem, I despair.

  Robert Frost

  Clever, People, Poetry

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

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• One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Optimism, Climbing Trees

  "Birches" l. 59 (1916)

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• We ran as if to meet the moon.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Moon

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.20, Delphi Classics

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

  Robert Frost

  Bye, Feet, House

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• The sister's face
  Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility.
  She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.

  Robert Frost

  Responsibility, Thinking, Wrinkles

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

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• And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Stories, World

  "The Lesson for Today" l. 158 (1942)

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• Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

  Robert Frost

  Loyalty, Trials, Benefits

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• I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.265, Harvard University Press

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