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• I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Gains, Entertainment

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.242, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Heaven, Ifs

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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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• If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Russia, America

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• Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Education by Poetry". Robert Frost's speech at Amherst College in Massachusetts, www.en.utexas.edu. February 1931.

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• Live and let live, believe and let believe.
  'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits
  Of the one awful God. Just so the saints
  Are God's white light refracted into colors.

  Robert Frost

  God, Believe, Light

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

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• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, College, Judgment

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• A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

  Robert Frost

  Work, Champion, Dies

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• I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Sports, Play, Tennis

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• What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

  Robert Frost

  Young

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

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• You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Rose, Courses

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

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• I am one who has been acquainted with the night

  Robert Frost

  Night, Has Beens

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• The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

  Robert Frost

  Garden, Snakes, Evil

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.246, Everyman's Library

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• I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Ideas, Ought

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• A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Eight

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• I never take my own side in a quarrel.

  Robert Frost

  Sides, Quarrels, My Own

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

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• If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

  Robert Frost

  Doe, Cry, Reader

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• God once declared He was true
  And then took the veil and withdrew.

  Robert Frost

  God, Truth, Withdrawal

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

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• Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Shapes, Duty

  North of Boston (1914) "Self-Seeker"

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• No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

  Robert Frost

  Memories, Ends, Disregard

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

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