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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden
  "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

  Robert Frost

  Believe, Sound, Poet

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• Not to sink under being man and wife,
  But get some color and music out of life?

  Robert Frost

  Life, Marriage, Men

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

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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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• When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

  Robert Frost

  Horse, Wall, Character

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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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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• Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Poetry, Common

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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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• But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

  Robert Frost

  Work, Heart, Together

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.214, Harvard University Press

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• The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

  Robert Frost

  Science, Towns, Telescopes

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• Nature's first green is gold.

  Robert Frost

  Gold, Green, Firsts

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

  Robert Frost

  Hope, Failure, Pride

  North of Boston (1914) "Death of the Hired Man"

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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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• Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

  Robert Frost

  Drama, Needs, Form

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.99, 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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• 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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• 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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