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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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• 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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• I have remained resentful to this day
  When any but myself presumed to say
  That there was anything I couldn't be.

  Robert Frost

  Ambition, Resentment, Resentful

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

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• My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Beautiful, Rain

  Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Book, School

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Sweet, Burning, Bitterness

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

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

  Robert Frost

  Statistics, Outsiders, Dignity

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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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• 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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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

  Robert Frost

  1916 'The Oven Bird'.

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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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• 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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