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• Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

  Robert Frost

  Mother, Men, Vanity

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• I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Play, Poetry

  In Edward Lathem 'Interviews with Robert Frost' (1966) p. 203

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• He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

  Robert Frost

  Fire, House, Vision

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.314, Harvard University Press

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• If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

  Robert Frost

  Home, May, Knows

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

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• Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

  Robert Frost

  Teamwork, Men, Working Together

  Robert Frost, “The Tuft Of Flowers”

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• 'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?'
  I don't suppose the water's changed at all.
  You and I know enough to know it's warm
  Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm.
  But all the fun's in how you say a thing.

  Robert Frost

  Summer, Fun, June

  Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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• I have wished a bird would fly away,
  And not sing by my house all day.

  Robert Frost

  House, Bird, Fly Away

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.732, Harvard University Press

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• Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Than smoke and mist who better could appraise
  The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

  Robert Frost

  Spirit, Kindred, Mist

  Reginald Lansing Cook, Robert Frost (1974). “Robert Frost, a living voice”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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• Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

  Robert Frost

  Solitude, Left

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
  Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
  And go along with you ere you lose sight
  Of what you came for and become like me,
  
  Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
  How love burns through the Putting in the Seed
  On through the watching for that early birth
  When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
  
  The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
  Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

  Robert Frost

  Weed, Spring, Passion

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

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• For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

  Robert Frost

  Long, Doubt, Belief

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

  Robert Frost

  Honesty, Honest

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• There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

  Robert Frost

  Strong, Littles, Saying Nothing

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• Nature's never quite
  Sure she hasn't erred
  In her vague design.

  Robert Frost

  God, Design, Never Quit

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

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• Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Writing, People

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

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• As a confirmed astronomer
  I'm always for a better sky.

  Robert Frost

  Sky, Astronomers

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

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• The sidelong glance is what you depend on.

  Robert Frost

  Glances, Depends

  Robert Frost, Elinor Frost, Arnold E. Grade (1972). “Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost”, p.48, SUNY Press

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• The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Style, Way

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.120, Harvard University Press

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• The reason artists show so little interest
  In public freedom is because the freedom
  They've come to feel the need of is a kind
  No one can give them they can scarce attain
  The freedom of their own material.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Artist, Government

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

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• Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Risk, Looks

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

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• Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

  Robert Frost

  Music, Stars, Dark

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• The best way to hate is the worst.
  'Tis to find what the hated need,
  Never mind of what actual worth,
  And wipe that out of the earth.
  Let them die of unsatisfied greed.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Greed, Mind

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

  Robert Frost

  Fun, Men, Laughing

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. 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; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Eye, Night

  "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

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