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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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Haven't you heard, though,
About the ships where war has found them out
At sea, about the towns where war has come
Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels
And children in the ships and in the towns?

Robert Frost

Stars, Children, War

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

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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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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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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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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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A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
Better a meaningless name, I should say,
As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
Name children some names and see what you do.

Robert Frost

Children, Hands, Names

Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.241, Everyman's Library

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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark,
To lean against and hear in the dark.
Petals I may have once pursued.
Leaves are all my darker mood.

Robert Frost

Dark, May, Mood

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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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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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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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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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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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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Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

Robert Frost

War, Taken, Poetry

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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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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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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Let those possess the land, and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art.

Robert Frost

Love, Art, Strong

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

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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

Robert Frost

Nature, Machinery, Whole

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

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Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

Robert Frost

Sleep, House, Politics

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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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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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

Robert Frost

Heart, Abode, Heart Ache

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss.

Robert Frost

Silence, Tree, Toss

Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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