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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, College, Judgment

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

  Robert Frost

  Doe, Cry, Reader

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• I am one who has been acquainted with the night

  Robert Frost

  Night, Has Beens

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

  Robert Frost

  Work, Champion, Dies

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• The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

  Robert Frost

  People, Risk, Want

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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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• Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Shapes, Duty

  North of Boston (1914) "Self-Seeker"

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• One age is like another for the soul.

  Robert Frost

  History, Soul, Age

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Summer, Air

  Robert Frost (2016). “Promises to keep: Poems. Gedichte”, p.168, C.H.Beck

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

  Robert Frost

  Sports, Play, Tennis

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