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• Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

  Robert Frost

  Space, Sick

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

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• Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

  Robert Frost

  Wedding, Two, Speed

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

  Robert Frost

  Fate, Weather, Imagination

  Robert Frost (1928). “West-running Brook”, Henry Holt

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• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Business, Ocean

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• Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Butterfly, Eye

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.271, Everyman's Library

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• How are we to write
  The Russian novel in America
  As long as life goes so unterribly?

  Robert Frost

  Writing, America, Long

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• But what would interest you about the brook,
  It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.

  Robert Frost

  Summer, Winter, Rivers

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

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• I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

  Robert Frost

  Music, Sound, May

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.141, Harvard University Press

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• Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Beginners, Trials

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• The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

  Robert Frost

  Hurt, Long, Weight

  Robert Frost, Robert Newdick (1932). “Robert Frost”

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• I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

  Robert Frost

  Ifs

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

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• I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Fate, Wish

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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• For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Too Much, Harvest

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

  Robert Frost

  Mistake, Past, Self

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• I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

  Robert Frost

  Long, Track, Missing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.

  Robert Frost

  Fall, Heart, Hands

  Robert Frost (1928). “West-running Brook”, Henry Holt

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• Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

  Robert Frost

  Stills, Possessing, Possessed

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

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• So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

  Robert Frost

  Dream, Birch Trees

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Tree, Neighbor

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, People, Worry

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• Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

  Robert Frost

  House, Secret, Tone

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

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• One luminary clock against the sky
  Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

  Robert Frost

  Time, Sky, Clock

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

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• The rose is a rose, And was always a rose.
  But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Apples, Rose

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

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• The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Differences, Smoking

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• Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Sweet, Pain

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

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