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Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord.

Robert Frost

God, Art, Religion

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

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For hard it is to keep from being King
When it's in you and in the situation.

Robert Frost

Nature, Kings, Situation

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

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States strong enough to do good are but few.
Their number would seem limited to three.

Robert Frost

Strength, Strong, Numbers

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

Robert Frost

Teacher, Fire, Age

Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.744, Harvard University Press

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Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Robert Frost

Freedom, Men, Speech

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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To Time it never seems that he is brave
To set himself against the peaks of snow
To lay them level with the running wave,
Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
But only grave, contemplative and grave.

Robert Frost

Running, Lying, Snow

Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

Robert Frost

Dog, Noses, Source

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

Robert Frost

Birth Life, Earth, Birth

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

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I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?

Robert Frost

Music, Dwelling Place, Tree

Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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Bounds should be set
To ingenuity for being so cruel
In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

Robert Frost

Change, Should, Restraint

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.

Robert Frost

Soul, Target, Body

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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As for his evil tidings,
Belshazzar's overthrow,
Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
What soon enough he would know?

Robert Frost

Soon Enough, Evil, Knows

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

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What an exciting age it is we live in
With all this talk about the hope of youth
And nothing made of youth.

Robert Frost

Age, Youth, Made

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

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New is a word for fools in towns who think
Style upon style in dress and thought at last
Must get somewhere.

Robert Frost

Thinking, Style, Dresses

Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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I own I never really warmed
To the reformer or reformed.
And yet conversion has its place
Not halfway down the scale of grace.

Robert Frost

Grace, Reform, Scales

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

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Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.

Robert Frost

Love, Knowing, Poetry

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

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The Moon for all her light and grace
Has never learned to know her place.

Robert Frost

Moon, Light, Grace

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

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The truth is the river flows into the canyon
Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

Robert Frost

Rivers, Flow, Truth Is

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

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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

Funny, Life, Family

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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

Robert Frost

War, Giving, Nuisance

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

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Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

Robert Frost

Song, Learning, May

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

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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Robert Frost

Moving, Circles, Style

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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Robert Frost

Fire, Ice, Poetry

"Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)

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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

Robert Frost

Age, Needs, Know How

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.114, Harvard University Press

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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

Robert Frost

Play, Likes, Eucharist

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Born: March 26, 1874
Died: January 29, 1963
Occupation: Poet
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