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• Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

  Robert Frost

  Icy, Cowardice, Engaging

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• It was far in the sameness of the wood;
  I was running with joy on the Demon's trail,
  Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

  Robert Frost

  God, Running, Joy

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

  Robert Frost

  Gold, Engagement, Jewelry

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

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• Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
  Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

  Robert Frost

  Courage, Air, Stalemate

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

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• My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

  Robert Frost

  Giving, Would Be, Deeds

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

  Robert Frost

  May, Worried

  'Collected Poems' (1939) 'The Figure a Poem Makes'

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• We're either nothing or a God's regret.

  Robert Frost

  God, Regret, Human Condition

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

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• Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

  Robert Frost

  Expression, Effort, Reaching

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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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• Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Voice, Imagination

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
  Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

  Robert Frost

  Bird, Tunes, Noon

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• A turning point in modern history.

  Robert Frost

  America, History, Modern

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

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• I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

  Robert Frost

  Earth, Get Away

  "Birches" l. 48 (1916)

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• In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Heaven, Ifs

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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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• I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Way, Lost

  Robert Frost (1961). “Conversations on the Craft of Poetry”

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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• Courage is of the heart by derivation,
  And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

  Robert Frost

  Courage, Heart, Soul

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

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• I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Thinking, Ice

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Sweet, Burning, Bitterness

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

  Robert Frost

  Believe, Teaching, School

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

  Robert Frost

  Friendship, Trying, Might

  Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.45, Penguin

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• Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

  Robert Frost

  Night, White, Giving

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

  Robert Frost

  Race, Pace, Chance

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

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• You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

  Robert Frost

  Statistics, Outsiders, Dignity

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